Republicans are punting on plans to advance a $70 billion immigration bill, retreating after meeting with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to address concerns about the administration’s anti-weaponization fund.
The move pushes the process until at least after their weeklong Memorial Day recess after the House and Senate were sent home Thursday afternoon.
Earlier, Senate Republicans were poised to try to rein in two of Donald Trump’s controversial spending wishes: $1 billion for the East Wing expansion and nearly $1.8 billion for an “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” two people familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.
Blanche canceled pre-scheduled travel to go up to Capitol Hill to attempt to quell the growing Republican outrage over the “anti-weaponization fund,” which would be used to compensate allies who say they have suffered injustices at the hand of the Biden administration. But Blanche’s meeting seems to have completely backfired.
There was yelling in the room, multiple sources told ABC News, with some senators – even some vocal Trump supporters – telling Blanche they believed they’d lose the Senate majority over the fund.
QUIT SPENDING OUR MONEY ON YOUR VANITY PROJECTS, ASSHOLE!
This fucking piece of shit… “anti-weaponization fund”? Motherfucker, your entire 2nd term has been weaponized against your “political enemies” and apparently the American people and now the whole world, stupid fucking pedophile piece of shit.
Consume excrement and expire.
This article making it sound like Republican senators and house members were going to do anything to rein in Donald Trump sounds completely unbelievable. Most of the time the Democratic leadership barely makes any meaningful noise.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I hate it when the money to store my balls and the payment for the lawsuit I settled with myself derails my 70 billion in funding for an unaccountable secret police force
