REPUBLICANS REVOLT OVER TRUMP FUND
The dispute centers on a $1.8 billion fund and a $1 billion White House ballroom package that Republicans say complicate the bill.
- Senate Republicans abandoned plans to vote on a $72 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding bill on Thursday, delaying the legislation until June when lawmakers return from the Memorial Day recess.
- Lawmakers balked at a $1.8 billion fund designed to compensate allies who claim victimization by the Justice Department, alongside a $1 billion taxpayer-funded request for a new White House East Wing ballroom that became sticking points.
- Nebraska Republican Representative Don Bacon said the ballroom was "rolled out so badly that I'm not sure it can be recovered in the near term," while North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis called the anti-weaponization fund "stupid on stilts" in an interview with Spectrum News.
- Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche faced angry senators on Capitol Hill while attempting to justify the $1.8 billion fund, though several members insisted the money not compensate individuals convicted of assaulting law enforcement during the Capitol riot.
- A source close to the White House revealed a fundamental shift in Republican calculations, telling MS NOW that GOP lawmakers "can outlive Trump, politically speaking," as some warn Republicans could lose the Senate and House if elections were held today.
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Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund sparks Republican revolt in Senate
Republican senators can no longer plaster over the divisions Donald Trump is bringing to their party. After a turbulent sequence of events in which the administration had constant disagreements with GOP senators over Trump’s ballroom and a slush fund of $1.8 billion for individuals supposedly targeted by Joe Biden, Republican senators have decided to abandon a bill meant to fund ICE. According to a report by HuffPost, Trump’s acting Attorney Gen…
'A freaking disaster is coming': GOP lawmakers rushing to bail on Trump
A combination of bad Donald Trump polling and highly controversial proposals like his so-called “slush fund” to compensate allies who feel they were victimized by President Joe Biden’s DOJ for their criminality has finally given GOP lawmakers the nudge they needed to abandon him and save their own c...
Donald Trump is not used to being coughed up by Republicans. U.S. president is the 'boss' of his party. He orders and commands, under threat of ending the political race of the disscollions, as is being seen in the primaries of this season. But Trump may be stretching the rope too far. Even for those who have forgiven everything, also the assault on the Capitol in January 2021 or his pardon to the protagonists. This week unusual cracks have open…
Trump’s $1.8 billion fund triggers massive GOP revolt
Trump Fund Fight Sparks GOP Blowback President Donald Trump is standing by a new Justice Department fund that some Republicans are calling a political mess. The program, tied to a settlement involving Trump, his family, and the IRS, has quickly turned into a fight inside his own party. Trump defended the move on Truth Social...
Republican Senate Revolt Over $1.8 Billion 'Slush Fund' Kills ICE Funding Vote, Triggering Party Infighting
Senate Republicans departed Washington for the Memorial Day recess on Thursday without passing a $72 billion budget reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, after an internal revolt over a Justice Department fund perceived within the party as a vehicle to pay Trump allies. The collapse of the vote means Congress will almost certainly miss President Trump’s stated June 1 deadline for passag…
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