Republicans punt on reconciliation amid furious disagreement over ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Senate Republicans have canceled plans to begin voting this week on a budget reconciliation package that would provide approximately $70 billion to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029 amid a furious disagreement within their conference over the Trump administration’s proposal to establish a $1.8 billion compensation fund for MAGA allies. Senate Republicans emerging from a…

Cassidy: Congress should decide $1.776B fund for Trump allies

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Wednesday the nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that the Department of Justice (DOJ) created earlier this week should be approved by Congress. “People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his…

Boebert: ‘You don’t have to be a rubber stamp for the president to support him’

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said Wednesday that Republicans lawmakers do not have to agree with President Trump on every issue to support him, in the wake of a string of primary losses for Republicans the president considered disloyal. Asked about Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) primary loss to the Trump-backed Ed Gallrein on Tuesday, Boebert told…