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S. 4703

Introduced

Redirecting Trump Slush Funds to Lower Health Care Costs Act

Sponsor
DJacky Rosen· Nevada
Introduced
June 8, 2026
Policy area
Health
Latest action
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.June 8, 2026
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4703 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 4703

To prohibit Federal funds from being used for certain legal financial 
settlements, and for other purposes.

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 8, 2026

Ms. Rosen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL

To prohibit Federal funds from being used for certain legal financial 
settlements, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Redirecting Trump Slush Funds to 
Lower Health Care Costs Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDS BEING USED FOR CERTAIN LEGAL 
FINANCIAL SETTLEMENTS.

(a) In General.--No Federal funds, including amounts appropriated 
under section 1304 of title 31, United States Code (commonly known as 
the ``Judgment Fund''), may be used by any Federal agency--
(1) for any legal financial settlement to the President or 
for the personal or political benefit of the President; or
(2) to establish or maintain any commission, fund 
(including the ``Anti-Weaponization Fund'' announced by the 
Attorney General on May 18, 2026), or mechanism utilized to 
provide the compensation described in paragraph (1).
(b) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, there is appropriated to the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services $1,776,000,000, to address health care costs through 
funding for the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), including funding to eliminate the 
funding and eligibility cuts enacted in Public Law 119-21 (commonly 
known as the ``One Big Beautiful Bill Act'').
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