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NYT op-ed sounds dire alarm that Trump found a way to finance MAGA paramilitary groups
May 21, 2026
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A New York Times opinion writer warned Thursday that President Donald Trump's new 1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund has created an unprecedented mechanism for federal money to flow to paramilitary groups loyal to the president.Noah Shachtman, a Times contributing opinion writer who covers government corruption, argued in a guest essay that the fund could institutionalize cronyism as an official function of the federal government — and worse, finance the violent supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan.
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