Democrats vow to challenge Trump’s $1.8bn ‘Maga slush fund’ in US Senate

Chuck Schumer shares plans to force vote on anti-weaponization' fund and accuses Trump of corruption'

Democrats in the US Senate vowed to force Republicans to vote on a $1.8bn MAGA slush fund" established as part of a resolution of Donald Trump's long-shot lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

The US president has described the secretive and loosely controlled anti-weaponization fund" as a means of paying the victims of politicized prosecutions. Members of his own party are among those who have expressed alarm.