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Recent Examples of slush fund
As shocking as this slush fund is, it should best be understood as one more test for what the administration can get away with.
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New York Daily News,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
Immediately after the slush fund was announced, a bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed their disgust.
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The Orlando Sentinel,
23 May 2026
The Jackson Estate is supposed to be a prudent, fiscally responsible entity that supports the Jackson family – not a slush fund to help John Branca live out his Hollywood mogul fantasies.
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Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
13 May 2026
The money went to the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that operates like a slush fund to pay for Newsom’s high-profile international travel.
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Susan Shelley,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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New York Daily News,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
Immediately after the slush fund was announced, a bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed their disgust.
—
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 May 2026
The Jackson Estate is supposed to be a prudent, fiscally responsible entity that supports the Jackson family – not a slush fund to help John Branca live out his Hollywood mogul fantasies.
—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
13 May 2026
The money went to the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that operates like a slush fund to pay for Newsom’s high-profile international travel.
—
Susan Shelley,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush fund
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Where Cancer bonds through emotional closeness and consistency, Aquarius needs independence, intellectual stimulation and plenty of room to move freely.
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The platforms behind it deliver a quick hit of stimulation.
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Well, that gives me all the more motivation to bust right through that thing.
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This decline deprives teens of vital skill development, work experience, and motivation, fostering pessimism among Gen Z.
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China also engineered a massive government stimulus package to stabilize its economy.
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Central banks thought that forward guidance, particularly when interest rates were very low, could provide additional market stimulus.
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And given that such systems are physically possible, powerful economic and strategic incentives exist for technologists and entrepreneurs to build them.
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The money is an incentive granted by the city after working more than 20 years to attract a builder with a project appropriate for the property, which was cleared decades earlier for redevelopment.
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There is no grand seduction scene.
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The seduction of despair can be intense, whether on the personal or the political level.
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But aside from gifting Zane with spurs, Beth’s more or less a spectator through all of the Jackson family drama.
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Yeezy works into the evening, hacking at jagged spurs of plastic and tapping away with a special brass gunsmith’s hammer.
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Latvian intelligence is warning that Russia is preparing possible provocations against the Baltic states or Poland, including drones or any other hybrid attacks, in an effort to pressure NATO countries to stop supporting Ukraine.
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Red wasps, especially the Carolina paper wasp, are known to be more aggressive than typical paper wasps and can sting with little provocation.
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Much of that violence can be blamed on anti-Jewish incitement that draws on the deepest foundations of anti-Jewish myth.
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The Nationalist government thought television an incitement to sedition.
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“Slush fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20fund. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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