House Republicans voted to make themselves eligible to collect from Rapin' Grampy's taxpayer-backed Slush Fund

[Miles Archer]

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

Levin took to X to announce that he had introduced an amendment to block members of Congress, the president, and the vice president from collecting any money from the controversial fund unless a court specifically orders it. Every Republican on the committee voted against his amendment, according to his video.

"Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up," Levin wrote in the caption.

The California Democrat said the vote allows MAGA Republicans in Congress, along with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, to position themselves as victims of "government weaponization" and collect settlement funds out of the pool Trump created.

"That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of," Levin wrote.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-lawmakers-alarm-self-dealing/

[dalton99a]

1. Spread this far and wide

[tanyev]

2. That's quite a smash and grab.

[underpants]

3. This tells us what any chance to stop this faces in the House.

[Miles Archer]

5. Maybe the Senate too. Lindsey Graham was one of the first to lick his lips over this before it was a "thing."

We'll see. But Graham was very vocal about how much he'd enjoy a slice of that pie, PERHAPS..."PERHAPS"...without knowing, at the time, that it would be siphoned out of the necks of American tax payers.

[underpants]

7. My brain immediately went to - What damages has he suffered?

but then my brain realized that this isn’t a legal proceeding. There’s no judge. Nothing but a 5 person board appointed by Trumps former personal lawyer who now is in a fealty-fest to be nominated as AG.

The 5 person board also is under Trump’s influence lest they be cast out if MAGA.

What a complete shit show.

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

Well not that shocked.

[sakabatou]

6. How many times do we have to call out blatant corruption