Republicans in disarray
This week, President Trump set a world record in self-dealing corruption. And last night, Republican leaders pulled their reconciliation bill before it could even reach the Senate floor.
Why? Because this bill was so massively corrupt that Republicans couldn't even keep their own party together.
We're talking about $1 billion for a Louis XIV-style ballroom boondoggle — gold-plated excess that belongs in a monarchy, not a democratic republic.
We're talking about giving $70 billion to ICE and CBP — agencies already sitting on $100 billion in unspent money — while not giving a single dollar to American families struggling with the sky-high costs of health care, housing, or gas.
And at the center of it all: a deal between Trump and his own former personal lawyer — now the acting attorney general — to hand the President a $1.8 billion slush fund to give to his friends, plus a full exemption for him and his family from penalties for possible past tax cheating.
Corruption. Corruption. Corruption. At a scale this country has never seen.
Democrats fiercely fought against this bill. And while we won a delay, we know that Republicans will bring this back. And when they do, I'll be ready with amendments that put every Senator on the record — for or against Trump's corrupt self-dealing, for or against a government that works for billionaires instead of families.
Onward!
Jeff
