Stateside with Kai and Carter
Robert Reich on how Trump's slush fund loss is an opportunity for Democrats
Published: 3 June 2026 at 21:45 Europe/London
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This week the bipartisan furor over Donald Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund escalated to the point that the administration balked, saying they are no longer moving forward with it. But Robert Reich, a Guardian columnist and former US secretary of labor, says the fund, and specifically, the additional detail of the settlement giving Trump and his family immunity from future IRS audits, are the essence of corruption – and if Democrats can successfully connect that corruption to the affordability crisis, they might just have a winning message on their hands.
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- Read Reich’s newsletter on how Democrats could tie the affordability crisis to Trump administration corruption
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