“This week, Senate Democrats will launch a coordinated effort to kill the slush fund before one cent goes out the door,” the New York Senator wrote in a "Dear Colleague” letter, in which he called the fund Trump’s “most brazen act of self-dealing” and “one of the most corrupt schemes ever launched by a president.”
Schumer said that Democrats would “be ready with amendments to shut the fund down” if Republicans again seek to use budget reconciliation—an expedited process for considering legislation under which Congress can pass spending-related bills with a simple majority—to push through a package funding federal immigration agencies, as they are expected to do later this week.
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The move has drawn backlash from both sides of the aisle, and pushback in the courts.
When asked at a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing last month whether members of far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers could be eligible for payments under the fund, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who described the fund as “a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress,” said that “anybody in this country can apply.”
Two officers who helped protect the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots have also sued the Trump Administration to block the fund. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs argued that the fund is “illegal,” describing it as a “taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.”
He said that “the courts will not be the only line of defense,” vowing to investigate all parties involved in the approval of the settlement, including the DOJ, the Treasury Department, the White House, and “who stands to benefit” from its payouts.
“It makes everything way harder than it should be,” Thune said.
“Under what circumstances would it ever make sense to provide restitution for people who were either pled guilty or were found guilty in a court of law?” Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina asked, calling the fund a “payout for punks.”
In the House, meanwhile, Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi joined together to introduce legislation last month to block the use of taxpayer money for the fund.
Schumer wrote in his Monday letter that simply taking steps to “manage” the fund is not enough.
“You do not fix a corrupt slush fund by promising to manage it better,” Schumer wrote. “You end it.”
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