{"id":344750,"date":"2026-05-19T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/1-8-billion-fund-for-trumps-allies-may-put-taxpayers-on-the-hook\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:10","slug":"1-8-billion-fund-for-trumps-allies-may-put-taxpayers-on-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/1-8-billion-fund-for-trumps-allies-may-put-taxpayers-on-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.8 billion fund for Trump\u2019s allies may put taxpayers on the hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/vwn3TQALsL8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"$1.8 billion fund for Trump\u2019s allies may put taxpayers on the hook\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vwn3TQALsL8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump\u2019s allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration. CNN\u2019s Paula Reid reports on the unprecedented move that would allow the president\u2019s administration to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump\u2019s allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration. CNN\u2019s Paula Reid reports on the unprecedented move that would allow the president\u2019s administration to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[129399,129244,132380],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-344750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-department","tag-justice","tag-monday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$1.8 billion fund for Trump\u2019s allies may put taxpayers on the hook | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch $1.8 billion fund for Trump\u2019s allies may put taxpayers on the hook for free, here on News ISC. 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