Cassidy: Congress should decide $1.776B fund for Trump allies
Senate Cassidy: Congress should decide $1.776B fund for Trump allies Comments: by Max Rego - 05/21/26 11:56 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Max Rego - 05/21/26 11:56 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Wednesday the nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that the Department of Justice (DOJ) created earlier this week should be approved by Congress. “People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability,” Cassidy wrote on the social platform X.
- ▪Senate Cassidy: Congress should decide $1.776B fund for Trump allies Comments: by Max Rego - 05/21/26 11:56 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Max Rego - 05/21/26 11:56 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen.
- ▪Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Wednesday the nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that the Department of Justice (DOJ) created earlier this week should be approved by Congress.
- ▪“People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accounta
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Senate Cassidy: Congress should decide $1.776B fund for Trump allies Comments: by Max Rego - 05/21/26 11:56 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Max Rego - 05/21/26 11:56 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Wednesday the nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that the Department of Justice (DOJ) created earlier this week should be approved by Congress. “People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability,” Cassidy wrote on the social platform X. “This is adding to our national debt.
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