Trump Can Find $1.8 Billion for His Thugs. So Why Are Millions of Kids Going Hungry?

The GOP somehow found billions for Trump’s “anti-weaponization” slush fund overnight, but says America can’t afford insulin, affordable housing, or dignity for the elderly who built this country…

May 22, 2026

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Over at her Substack, the cartoonist and writer Aubrey Hirsch took a look at Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” slush-fund and did something that should make every Republican in Washington squirm. She started doing the math. What if, she asked, we put that money toward something other than enriching Trump, his family, and the mob he summoned to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021?

Her list is devastating. With that $1.776 billion we could, she writes:

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Thom Hartmann

NY Times bestselling author 34 books in 17 languages & nation's #1 progressive radio host. Psychotherapist, international relief worker. Politics, history, spirituality, psychology, science, anthropology, pre-history, culture, and the natural world.