The current court docket order quickly blocking Trump’s DOJ weaponization of presidency funds which are meant to repay those that dedicated crimes to assist Trump in his effort to overturn the 2020 election was a fair greater deal than first reported.
The momentary order blocking the fund gave members of Congress from each events who oppose it time to work collectively to kill it.
Whereas it’s true that Congress can’t shut down the already licensed DOJ settlement fund that has been hijacked for Trump’s functions, there’s something else that Congress can do.
Congress can go away the fund in place, however use its energy of the purse and budgetary authority to vary how a lot is within the fund and fix situations on how the cash is used.
The thought of attaching situations to who can obtain a payout was the primary space of focus, and that also stays a preferred possibility. It may be the trail of least legislative resistance.
The associate to placing restrictions on the fund is to vary the quantity of funds obtainable.
Trump thinks that he’s an omnipotent president, however since his revenge tour has cooked his Senate majority and liberated 4 Republican senators who can now do no matter they need for the remainder of the yr, the president’s affect over the Senate is gone.
This all units up a doubtlessly wild week of revolt within the Senate.
