McConnell slams Blanche over ‘slush fund to pay people who assault cops’

Reconciliation Bill Funding Top Trump Priorities Can't Reach Floor, Thune Sends Senate on Early Recess

'We'll never know if he could have been saved.' The gaps in Trump's rural health fund

Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it's not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina's Martin County to reopen its only hospital.

Todd Blanche’s DOJ reign 'going to end with his disbarment': journalist

American outrage continues to grow as President Donald Trump's administration moves forward with its nearly $1.8 billion fund that aims to compensate Americans who feel they've been wronged by the government. Speaking on CNN this week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he thinks taxpayers "do want their tax dollars spent on things like that."Journalist John Harwood issued his own warning, "Does Todd Blanche recognize that this disgraceful chapter in American life is going to end with his disbarment?"National security expert Marcy Wheeler similarly commented that, given the frustration from lawmakers on display Thursday, it's entirely possible that Blanche could be removed from office. She shared law school Professor Steve Vladeck's recent post, which argues that the best way to defeat the fund is through politics. However, she doesn't think it's the only way to stop Blanche. "I think you START impeachment with Blanche," she wrote on BlueSky. "25 GOP Senators spoke up (in private) yesterday. 25+47-Fetterman = 71. Better yet, INCLUDE the dismissal of the Sedition verdicts NOW."Blanche only took over the Justice Department after Pam Bondi was fired, serving as acting attorney general.Vladeck's piece recalled that Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his majority opinion of NFIB v. Sebelius (which dealt with the Affordable Care Act in 2012). Roberts "defended the Court’s endorsement of Congress’s power to adopt the individual mandate by noting that it is 'not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.'"He urged, "One can believe in substantial judicial power without believing that literally every political dispute in our country can and should be resolved by unelected judges."Vladeck, too, turned to impeachment, which hasn't proved successful in the ongoing efforts to hold Trump accountable for crimes. He argued that despite the GOP majority, "impeachment itself is feasible in this House ... because forcing every member of Congress to vote on the record whether this brazen, corrosive, and affirmatively dangerous corruption is impeachable is itself a point worth fighting for (and fighting with our friends over)."

Trump, who claimed he "wasn't involved" in $1.7B fund, now says he allowed it

President Trump on Friday defended the Justice Department's $1.7 billion "anti-weaponization" fund and said he "gave up a lot of money" by allowing its creation.

Trump rips Tillis after compensation fund criticism: ‘Nitpicker’

President Trump tore into Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Friday morning after the Republican lawmaker criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) newly debuted “anti-weaponization fund.” “I called him a ‘Nitpicker,’ always fighting against the Republican Party, and ME, mostly on things that didn’t matter,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. The president referred…

Trump says he ‘gave up a lot of money’ so ‘anti-weaponization’ fund could help others

President Donald Trump defended his $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund on Friday, despite Republican uproar. “I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK […]

More Brewpubs And Museums Won’t Revive Cities Like Dallas, But Better Schools And More Cops Will

Dallasites need to focus on good schools, low crime, cheaper housing, and low taxes before culture and lifestyle.

Tillis: ‘Stupid’ Trump compensation fund ‘beyond the pale’ 

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Thursday slammed the Trump administration’s announcement of a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, joining other Republican senators in criticizing it both privately and publicly.  The GOP senator called on his Republican colleagues to “speak up” to oppose this move.  “This is beyond the pale,” he told reporters in comments aired…