The $1.8 Billion Fund That Died at 10 P.M. on a Sunday
Two Republicans on their way out of Washington got a payout fund for the president's allies formally killed. Here is what was at stake, and what the same order did to his tax protection.
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Late Sunday night, the acting attorney general signed an order killing a $1.8 billion fund. Almost nobody was watching. It went out around 10 p.m. Eastern on a Sunday in August, two days before a committee vote he needs to keep his job.
That timing is part of the story. So is the second thing the order did, which almost no…
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