Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Ahead Of The Senate Vote On His Amendment To Kill Donald Trump’s Corrupt Slush Fund
Washington D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor on Senate Democrats’ first amendment during vote-a-rama, which would kill Trump’s $2 billion slush fund, and challenged Senate Republicans to vote for the legislation and stand up to Trump’s corruption. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks:
My very first amendment offers Republicans a choice: do you support Donald Trump’s two-billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded slush fund, or do you want to protect the American people and their paychecks by outlawing this criminal, crony cash-back program permanently?
America has never seen a more clear-cut case of corruption, America has never seen a more clear-cut case of corruption than Donald Trump’s slush fund.
Trump sues Trump, Trump settles with Trump, Trump gives Trump Americans’ taxpayer dollars.
Trump won’t give Americans a penny to help offset the skyrocketing costs he brought on our country, but he is more than happy to charge them nearly two billion dollars to line the pockets of his family, his billionaire friends, and the criminals who mauled police officers on January 6.
If Republicans truly oppose this corruption, then prove it – support my amendment and ban the slush fund permanently by law.
Instead, Republicans are trusting the word of Todd Blanche – who built a career on lying – that the administration will just drop the slush fund.
Trump hasn’t even pretended to promise that the slush fund is done. Instead, Trump said of his slush fund: “I love it. I think it’s so important… It was a beautiful thing.”
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Republican Senators need to stop playing dumb, they need to listen to the truth, and stop trusting these fools like Todd Blanche who lies to the American people repeatedly.
Do we believe, do any of us believe that Donald Trump, who has lied to us day in and day out, will be able to resist getting his sticky fingers in the slush fund when it would benefit himself and his family? No way.
For something as corrupt as this slush fund, toothless guardrails, meek reforms, and empty promises won’t cut it – we need to outlaw it permanently.
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