{"id":23515,"date":"2026-06-02T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-retreats-on-anti-weaponization-fund-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:20:20","slug":"trump-administration-retreats-on-anti-weaponization-fund-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-retreats-on-anti-weaponization-fund-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration retreats on &#8216;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $1.8 billion settlement was seen as a &#8220;slush fund&#8221; by the president&#8217;s critics and made many in his own party uncomfortable&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/01\/trump-weaponization-fund-retreat-00944656\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $1.8 billion settlement was seen as a &#8220;slush fund&#8221; by the president&#8217;s critics and made many in his own party uncomfortable&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}