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Everything that's already been authorized and certified is already in motion, and current FISA authorizations will continue unaffected, at least through March 17, 2027.

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They want to convert these positions that right now are based on your qualifications for the job, what you know, your experience — into positions where they can appoint political hacks to do the job, which directly undermines the whole idea behind the merit-based civil service.

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fraud and highway robbery

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Trump is trying to commandeer nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer funds to bankroll a slush fund for January 6 cop-beaters and aggrieved MAGA foot soldiers.

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Mr. Attorney General, you are acting today like the president's personal attorney, and that's the whole problem.

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I think we need to make sure that no monies are going to pay out to people convicted of violent offenses, including people who beat up and assaulted Capitol police officers. I think we should attack it from every angle because it's an obscene use of taxpayer funds.

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Rewarding individuals who committed crimes is obscene. Every American can see through this illegal, corrupt, self-dealing scheme.

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Trump suing the IRS was never about justice, it's another self-enrichment scheme on the backs of hard-working taxpayers. Trump is scrambling to cut a backroom deal and solidify his position as the judge, jury, and executioner.

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Now, we learn he quietly signed a deal to bar the IRS from EVER reexamining Trump's, his family's, or his companies' prior taxes.

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This is nothing but a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the Treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump at DOJ to hand out to his private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists, including those who brutally beat police officers on January 6, 2021. This is a massive and unprecedented presidential plunder of the American people.

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Trump's DOJ is funneling your tax dollars to a slush fund to pay off Trump's buddies & allies, like rioters who stormed the Capitol & assaulted police on Jan 6th. An outrageous abuse of power.

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There is no indication that Lutnick engaged in any wrongdoing with Epstein.

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The Supreme Court has completed its effective demolition of the Voting Rights Act. Six Justices have ravaged Congress's express purposes, rewriting and effectively neutralizing Section 2 of the VRA by demanding the very standard of proof to bring a VRA claim — a showing of intentional racial discrimination — that Congress explicitly rejected in 1982.

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They have to deal with the FISA court's objection to the warrantless searches.

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The bill before us today leaves the Trump administration in charge of policing its own abuses of this sweeping authority that is going to be unacceptable to the American people who understand how our privacy rights and civil liberties are being trampled every day.

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Trump's systematic exploitation of Executive Branch power to loot billions of dollars from American taxpayers is the ongoing scandal of this ruthlessly corrupt Administration. The 'Ban Presidential Plunder of Taxpayer Funds Act' will prevent the president from pursuing the emerging MAGA grift of suing the government as a 'plaintiff' on bogus grounds and then settling the suit as 'defendant' for big bucks.

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The Trump Administration, together with congressional Republicans' sham subcommittee to investigate the January 6 investigators, is trying to erase in Orwellian fashion the historical record of what the mob's leaders actually did to support Donald Trump's Big Lie and order to 'fight and fight like hell' against the peaceful transfer of power.

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Pam Bondi's tenure will be remembered as a profound betrayal not only of the Department of Justice but of the American people. She transformed the people's Department of Justice into the President's private instrument of vengeance.

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The only thing we're going to support is adding that funding into the bill, adding voter ID, sending it back to the Senate, make them come back in and do their work. We can't believe that the Senate abdicated its responsibility this morning of not funding the child sex trafficking investigation division of ICE, that they didn't fund the Border Patrol.

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Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality

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Now, Trump, who fashions himself a king, is doing the dirty work himself, tearing apart the people's house to build a gaudy Marie Antoinette ballroom for the billionaires and CEOs to party while Americans are crushed by inflation and tariffs.

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We have the votes in the House, Republicans and Democrats, together, to immediately pass immigration reform.