{"id":280,"date":"2026-06-01T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:06:04","slug":"trump-slush-fund-echoes-scorned-19th-century-spoils-system-academics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018slush fund\u2019 echoes scorned 19th-century spoils system, academics say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s extraordinary $1.776 billion fund to pay off allies and others who say they have been wronged by past administrations has drawn widespread condemnation by opponents, including some Republicans, who characterize it as an act of brazen corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=278\">High-profile child deaths spark push for welfare agency transparency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0push to reward its supporters also harkens back to an earlier era of American cronyism, experts say, while expanding the frontiers of political favoritism.<\/p>\n<p>From the early years of the United States until well into the 19th century, a spoils system dominated the federal government. Presidents handed out jobs to supporters, filling the bureaucracy with workers who had demonstrated loyalty to the administration in power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s political idol, President Andrew Jackson, replaced large numbers of federal officials after his 1829 inauguration, for instance. One appointee to a role at the Port of New York\u00a0made out with more than $1 million, valued at tens of millions today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How Trump\u2019s giant \u2018slush fund\u2019 sparked lawsuits, roiled Republicans and revived Jan. 6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uaR8mGEsuS\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"282\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" scrolling=\"no\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnewsline.com\/2026\/05\/28\/repub\/how-trumps-giant-slush-fund-sparked-lawsuits-roiled-republicans-and-revived-jan-6\/embed\/#?secret=bpdSVh0Qeg#?secret=uaR8mGEsuS\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cHow Trump\u2019s giant \u2018slush fund\u2019 sparked lawsuits, roiled Republicans and revived Jan. 6\u201d \u2014 NC Newsline\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The comparison isn\u2019t exact. The spoils system was associated with the distribution of government jobs to political allies, a practice called patronage. Trump\u2019s new fund would instead deliver taxpayer dollars directly to favored individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, academics who have studied the spoils system and the presidency see parallels between the past and present \u2014 with a desire to reward allies and build allegiance at the center of it all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me that may be the common element here,\u201d said Sidney Shapiro, a professor of law at Wake Forest University\u00a0who wrote before the 2024 election that Trump wanted to reinstate the spoils system. \u201cIt appears President Trump is thinking about using the fund to reward people unfairly punished, but I think in his mind it\u2019s unfairly punished because they were trying to support him.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Five-member board to be named by Trump<\/h4>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u00a0announced the \u201canti-weaponization fund,\u201d which critics call a \u201cslush fund,\u201d on May 18 as it moved to settle a lawsuit Trump had filed in his personal capacity against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns by a former agency contractor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suit placed Trump in the extremely unusual position of effectively negotiating with himself because he has erased the DOJ\u2019s post-Watergate tradition of independence from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the settlement, the Justice Department under Trump had taken actions that would have been unheard of in other recent administrations. For instance, federal prosecutors have brought a case against former FBI Director James Comey and tried to pursue criminal charges against New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has also obtained an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a frequent critic of GOP politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s settlement agreement provides for the creation of the fund overseen by a board of five members chosen by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump\u2019s personal attorney. Trump can fire the members for any reason.<\/p>\n<p>The fund\u2019s board will have the power to make decisions about payments, as well as issue formal apologies. Claims submitted to the fund must be processed by Dec. 1, 2028, prior to the end of Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<h4>Jan. 6 rioters line up<\/h4>\n<p>A bevy of Trump supporters and hangers-on have said they plan to apply for compensation. They include individuals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, disrupting Congress\u2019 certification of President Joe Biden\u2019s Electoral College victory. Trump previously\u00a0pardoned rioters when he took office in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison before Trump pardoned him,\u00a0predicted on a recent podcast that a \u201clot of J6ers are going to spend their money on firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has cast the fund as an act of magnanimity on his part because the settlement agreement doesn\u2019t include a monetary payout to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Blanche also signed a document barring any additional scrutiny of the president\u2019s past tax history, a move that shields him from audits. The New York Times and ProPublica\u00a0reported in 2024 that Trump could have owed $100 million if he lost an audit battle over improper tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward. I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK IN of Mar-a-Lago, for an absolute fortune,\u201d Trump\u00a0wrote on Truth Social, referring to the FBI search of his Florida residence in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=276\">Measles, whooping cough spike amid low vaccination rates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has adopted a \u201cpatrimonial\u201d approach to governing, James Pfiffner, a professor emeritus at George Mason University who has studied the presidency, wrote in an email to States Newsroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benefits, like federal contracts, go to those who are loyal, Pfiffner wrote, and the government is treated as if it were a family business and the state\u2019s resources were his personal property.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d represents an extension of that approach, Pfiffner wrote, but also goes further than past presidents. He wrote that he could think of no past precedents in the modern presidency for such a blatant use of taxpayer money to potentially reward loyalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least in the spoils system, the people hired by the government were working and presumably doing their jobs,\u201d Pfiffner wrote. \u201cThe beneficiaries of this fund have done nothing to earn their benefits, and presumably some will be rewarded for having committed crimes to overturn the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congress began curbing the spoils system after the 1881 assassination of President James Garfield by a spurned job seeker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the next two decades, many federal positions were moved into a civil service system. While the federal government still includes\u00a0some 4,000 political appointees today, the vast majority of the bureaucracy is staffed by civil servants.<\/p>\n<h4>Critics and defenders in Congress<\/h4>\n<p>But it\u2019s unclear whether Congress will block Trump\u2019s fund, despite an intense backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Anger among Republican senators has stalled action on budget legislation funding immigration enforcement, which Democrats would have used to force votes on amendments to block the fund. Democrats have introduced multiple bills aimed at halting it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress cannot stand by while Trump turns the federal government into a political operation for his friends and cronies,\u201d Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Obstacles exist to congressional action. Even if Republicans who control both chambers voted with Democrats, Trump could veto bills passed placing restrictions on the fund, which would require two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate to override.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And some GOP lawmakers have defended the fund.<\/p>\n<p>On May 21, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, objected to a unanimous consent request by Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, to pass a bill that would prohibit payments to Jan. 6 rioters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Trump Department of Justice established a standard and lawful process to hear from American citizens who suffered lawfare or weaponization under the Biden administration,\u201d Tuberville said on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuits have been filed challenging the fund and how it\u2019s structured. Two police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6\u00a0have sued, warning that rioters could use the money to organize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Fund blocked temporarily<\/h4>\n<p>On Friday, a federal judge in Virginia ordered the Trump administration\u00a0to halt work on the fund for at least two weeks while she considers ordering a lengthier pause.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came in a lawsuit brought by a former federal prosecutor fired by the DOJ and a California professor who was charged but acquitted of assaulting a federal officer after protesting an immigration raid.<\/p>\n<p>Legal advocacy groups also argue Congress didn\u2019t intend for federal money to be used for these kinds of payoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother commonality is we the taxpayers are funding both,\u201d Shapiro, the Wake Forest professor, said of the spoils system and the Trump fund. \u201cWe certainly fund the jobs that people have and now we\u2019re funding this fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=274\">Bondi testifies before US House panel on Epstein files, but Dems blast her for evasion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comparison isn\u2019t exact. 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