How Senate Democrats Plan to Block Trump’s $1.8 Billion ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out a plan to fight the controversial $1.8 billion fund.
Senate Democrats are launching a coordinated effort to kill the Trump administration's $1.7+ billion "anti-weaponization fund."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out a plan to fight the controversial $1.8 billion fund.
Senate Democrats are mounting a coordinated campaign to eliminate a controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created by the Justice Department, with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowing to use every procedural tool available to force the issue to a vote.In a letter to Democratic colleagues Monday, Schumer announced that Senate Democrats would…
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…
The Senate minority leader said Democrats would use Senate procedure to try to kill President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, forcing Republicans to vote to preserve the compensation money.
Senate Republicans say the Trump administration’s promise to “abide by” a court order blocking its controversial $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund does not go far enough, demanding assurances the program will be permanently scrapped. “The only thing that’s going to solve this problem, to get immigration funded and law enforced, is for the president to…