President Trump’s narrative about Jan. 6, 2021, has become the dominant one in the Republican Party, as candidates and prominent lawmakers backing his claims about what happened that day have notched wins at the expense of GOP rivals with a different view. The latest round of primaries all but completes a slow replacement of Republicans…
“It’s pretty clear that the president has to say very explicitly that there’s not going to be a weaponization fund,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
“It’s pretty clear that the president has to say very explicitly that there’s not going to be a weaponization fund,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) on Monday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrapped earlier in the day. The bill, dubbed the Drain the Slush Fund Act, would bar the use of taxpayer money for payments to President Trump,…
GOP Rep. Kat Cammack (Fla.) on Monday morning criticized the Trump administration’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which the administration scrapped later in the day after intense backlash from congressional Republicans. Cammack, the chair of the Republican Women’s Caucus, said on Fox News’s “Mornings with Maria” that government weaponization is a “very real” and “rampant” problem….
The $1.8 billion settlement was seen as a “slush fund” by the president’s critics and made many in his own party uncomfortable.
The move comes after the committee spent months attacking the attorney general during his primary against Sen. John Cornyn, which he won last week.