{"id":474,"date":"2026-05-30T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:09:43","slug":"california-to-impose-100-tax-on-trumps-january-6-slush-fund-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"California to impose 100% tax on Trump’s January 6 ‘slush fund,’ governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"
May 27 (Reuters) – California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed under the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged \u200bpolitical “weaponization,” the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday.<\/div>
“One thing I \u200cthink we’re going to try to do … is tax 100%. Anyone from California who receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100% of those proceeds \u200band that’s an action the state of California can take,” Newsom \u200bsaid. “It’s an action we look forward to taking.”<\/div>
In a post \u2060on social media, the governor’s press office described the $1.776 billion fund as \u200ba “slush fund.”<\/div>
Newsom did not indicate when the state would start imposing the \u200btax.<\/div>
The White House and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/div>
The fund was announced last week as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal settlement with \u200bthe Internal Revenue Service after he initially sued the agency over his tax \u200breturns being leaked to the media.<\/div>
Trump pardoned more than 1,500 January 6 defendants last \u200cyear. \u2060Some have now begun to calculate the cost of their prosecution, jail time and businesses lost in the hope of compensation for what they regard as abuses by the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden.<\/div>
The unprecedented move \u200bis already facing \u200ba legal challenge by \u2060two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from rioters on January 6, 2021.<\/div>
Democrats and some Republicans have questioned \u200bthe legality of the fund, as well as a \u200bpart of \u2060the settlement “forever barring” the IRS from auditing past tax claims by Trump, his relatives and his businesses.<\/div>
“(The fund) could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a \u2060police officer, \u200badmitted their guilt, got convicted, got pardoned \u200band now we’re going to pay them for that? That’s absurd,” said Republican Senator Thom \u200bTillis of North Carolina.<\/div>