The Thug Slush Fund That Won't Die

 

Senate Republicans wanted to have it both ways yesterday in a marathon of votes on funding for an immigration "enforcement" bill.  That's because it's a party of fascist weasels:

Senate Republicans have defeated the first attempts to kill President Donald Trump’s rioter slush fund with legislation.

The Senate voted against several proposals targeting the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” before passing a $70 billion bill to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown early Friday.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said he’s not surprised Republicans aren’t taking any action against the controversial settlement fund.

“There’s only one rule here: In the end, he gets anything he wants,” Murphy told HuffPost, referring to Trump.

For a few hours on Thursday, it looked like Senate Republicans might actually vote for a motion by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to send an immigration funding bill back to a committee with instructions to outlaw the slush fund.

What was the fig leaf the Republicans used to remove funding for the MF's golden ballroom/bunker, but not outlaw the slush fund? 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the settlement last month, then this week said the administration was actually “not moving forward with the fund” thanks in large part to backlash from Republican lawmakers. Blanche’s statement, uttered during a committee hearing, was all Republican senators needed to restart their immigration bill. Even though the president himself this week seemed to think the fund is still alive, some senators used Blanche’s statement to brush off questions.

“It’s a moot point,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) told HuffPost. “There is no fund.”

Everyone knows you can always take Epstein class consigliere Blanche's word to the bank (where he's keeping the Epstein-Trump files in a vault!). 

What's important is that the cult leader still thinks there's a fund, and there's a $5 billion slush fund in the $70 billion bill that the MF's DHS loyal marionette "Markwaynes World" Mullin controls "at his discretion," so let's see if this turns out to be a cynical workaround to reward insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol and police.

The bill now goes to the even more craven and cultish House.

151 days until the mid-term elections.

(Photo:  hold on, boys, the check may still be coming! / (Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press)