Only three Republicans voted with Democrats to codify language banning the slush fund.
50 GOP senators voted for Trump's slush fund for terrorists. Despite a court ruling against it, most Senate Republicans want to keep welfare for J-6 insurrectionists alive.
Senate Republicans killed a Democratic attempt to end President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” Thursday. The Senate voted 50–49 against sending the spending bill back to the Judiciary Committee in order to attach language ending the fund. Susan Collins of Maine, Jon Husted of Ohio, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska were the only three Republicans to vote with Democrats for codifying the ban. The Trump administration has given mixed signals as to the fate of the $1.776 billion fund after a federal court temporarily struck it down last week. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a congressional committee Tuesday that the fund was dead, but Trump said otherwise in his interview with the New York Post podcast Pod Force One published on Wednesday.
Republicans used to proclaim that they were the "party of law and order". But it's harder to take them seriously with a vandal and convicted sex criminal as their leader.
Speaking of vandalism, a Trump Justice Department attorney claimed that the Orange One had the authority to demolish the Statue of Liberty.
Takeaways from the appeals court hearing on the White House ballroom project
President Donald Trump’s push to construct a massive ballroom at the White House without congressional approval was sharply questioned by a federal appeals court on Friday during a high-stakes hearing in a case testing the president’s power. The two-hour-long hearing before a three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest flashpoint in a protracted legal fight over the project. [ ... ] As a Justice Department attorney urged the appeals court to reverse (US District Judge Richard) Leon’s ruling and made clear that even if the administration loses during this round of wrangling and again before the Supreme Court, the DOJ attorney didn’t think any court would have the power to order Trump to tear down the ballroom. “I’m asking you a straightforward question: That court, this court, the Supreme Court – no court could stop the building of this?” Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, asked DOJ lawyer Yaakov Roth, who quickly responded, “Yes.” [ ... ] The government’s position, Millett said, was “move fast and break things and then nobody has standing.” She later raised a hypothetical in which Trump decided to quickly bulldoze the Statue of Liberty. “The people whose ancestors – that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast – nothing can be done (by them to challenge it)?” the judge asked. “I think that’s right, yes,” Roth said.
Basically the stance of the Trump Justice Department, currently run by Trump's personal attorney Todd Blanche, is that Trump can do whatever he feels like. That's as un-American as bulldozing the Statue of Liberty.
