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Joe Rogan criticizes Trump's immunity from tax prosecution

Podcast host Joe Rogan expressed shock Monday on "The Joe Rogan Experience" at President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded "anti-weaponization" compensation fund, created through a $10 billion IRS lawsuit settlement.

The fund compensates Trump allies and January 6 Capitol rioters who claim wrongful prosecution under Former President Joe Biden's administration.

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Trump nominee admitted she's 'pretending' to be a farmer for a tax break: report

Donald Trump's latest surgeon general nominee is facing fresh scrutiny over her use of a controversial New Jersey tax loophole that allows wealthy property owners to dramatically reduce their tax bills by designating mansions as farmland — despite openly admitting she is not actually a farmer.

According to Politico, Nicole Saphier, a Fox News frequent guest and radiologist, owns a 16,000-square-foot palatial estate in Far Hills, New Jersey, purchased for $5.8 million in 2023. She has designated 10.35 acres of the property as farmland, allowing her to pay as little as $40 annually in property taxes on that land.

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Trump caught red-handed using tax dollars for renovations he claimed he paid for: report

Back in March, President Donald Trump claimed that an expensive renovation to a White House pathway was paid for by himself personally, but on Friday, The Atlantic’s Michael Scherer revealed that the bill was actually footed by taxpayers.

The pathway in question connects the Oval Office to the White House’s central complex, a commute that takes all of 45 seconds to make, according to Scherer. Originally paved with Tennessee flagstone, a flat sedimentary rock, Trump instead wanted the pathway to be redone using “polished African granite, carved in Italy.”

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Trump could face tax reckoning as IRS deal ‘not worth the paper it’s written on’: expert

President Donald Trump reached an unprecedented agreement with his own Justice Department last week in which he, his family and his businesses would be granted broad tax immunity, but some experts say the agreement would be effectively worthless the moment Trump loses power, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, kicking off a potential tax reckoning.

“[Acting Attorney General Todd] Blanche signed an agreement that is not worth the paper it’s written on – except that government personnel at present will not challenge it,” said Stuart Bassin, a former Justice Department tax litigator, speaking with the Journal.

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GOP senators reject Trump's gas tax plan using the exact argument they hated in 2022

GOP senators are throwing cold water on President Donald Trump's latest plan to reduce gas prices, according to a new report.

Trump has proposed suspending the federal gas tax to help lower prices at the pump for American consumers. The plan is strikingly similar to the one former President Joe Biden proposed in 2022, which GOP senators fiercely rejected, and Congress needs to approve it before the tax is officially suspended.

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New DOJ order 'forever bars' US from tax claims against Trump family

The Department of Justice has issued an order permanently barring the United States from pursuing any tax claims or other legal actions against President Donald Trump, his family, his trusts, and his companies, according to a Justice Department document signed Tuesday by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The order, issued in connection with the settlement of Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, stated, "The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES" the plaintiffs and is "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action, appeals, or requests for any relief" against Trump or related parties.

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'Just as hateful as racial slurs': Ex-Trump aide melts down at 'tax the rich' slogan

A billionaire real estate magnate demanded that the ultra-rich be "praised and thanked" in an earnings call reported by Politico on Tuesday — and compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's calls to "tax the rich" to racial slurs.

“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — quote tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” said Steve Roth, who runs Vornado Realty Trust.

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'My taxes have gone up': Americans say Trump 'tax cuts' were 'eaten up' by admin failures

Donald Trump's sweeping tax cuts from his first term had little positive effect on the working-class, with a political analyst highlighting people may be worse off than before.

The Treasury claims an average tax cut of $3,750 per filer, and notes a higher wage per American worker of $7,200. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, "We want Americans to see exactly how President Trump's policies will strengthen small businesses, allow workers to keep more of their hard-earned money and spur economic growth."

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