Jon Favreau

Finally, after all these reports that both Republicans in Congress and White House aides were pushing Trump to just give up on the slush fund altogether, it appears as if he's done just that.

Two senior administration officials told Axios that Trump will drop the slush fund with one saying, quote, it's dead for now.

DOJ also posted a statement saying it'll, quote, abide by the court ruling blocking it, even though that block is only temporary.

Do you guys we haven't heard from Trump as of this recording.

Yeah.

And even then, who knows?

Even then, right.

But do you think he backs down this easily?

And and I think more importantly, do you guys think this is still a political issue for Republicans?

Schumer is going ahead with – or he said he's going ahead with making sure they have to vote on it.

And the vote is going to be on – originally, I think the first time we talked about Democrats potentially proposing amendments on this, it was like to restrict the fund or whatever.

There was a couple of proposals out there to just ban the fund completely forever.

And that's what Schumer is going with reportedly, he said today.

And I think that's great because –

Like what Republican now is going to vote against the ban now that Trump has said or at least the White House has signaled that they're giving up on it.

So Trump doesn't say anything between now and the vote.

Like if you're a Republican voting on this, you can either vote against the ban and really fuck yourself in the midterms because now the White House has abandoned it.

But now you're on record supporting it or you can vote for the ban and then the ban becomes law.

And then it doesn't matter if Trump backs off because now it's against the law.

There's a pretty good position that.