GOP Divided Over $1.8 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund

He says, shouldn't I be compensated? So I think everyone's going to kind of come out of the woodwork and say, hey, what about me? Meanwhile, a lot of Republicans are not a fan of this. John Thune said, not a big fan. I'm not sure exactly how they intend to use this money. But my understanding is that it was just announced. I don't see a purpose for it. Mitch McConnell said, so the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops. Utterly stupid, morally wrong. Take your pick. And then Thom Tillis ripped the bitch. Bill, here's what he said yesterday. I think it's stupid on stilts. Because it will invariably put us in a position where your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a police officer, admitted their guilt, got convicted, got pardoned, and now we're going to pay them for that. That's absurd. The American people are going to reject this out of here. When you take money from me to give to a purpose that I vehemently disagree with, that's tyranny, and that's what that account is. Yeah, so he's against it. I'm going to remember that phrase, stupid on stilts. Yes, that's a good one. It is a good one. And then Republican, Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick said he and some other Republicans are going to try to kill the fund and they sent a letter to acting attorney General Todd Blanche telling him that they don't agree with this. Now, it's interesting with Brian Fitzpatrick because he did that right after his fiance, Jackie Heinrich from Fox News, tried to ask Trump a question about Benjamin Netanyahu. and then Trump went off on her saying, you know, your fiance votes against me, and he just kind of went off on her. And then hours later, Brian Fitzpatrick submitted that letter to Todd Blanche. Also, Nebraska Republican Don Bacon said that he would be willing to consider using congressional action to block those funds. Senator Katie Britt from Alabama, who is always Team Trump, said that she doesn't want anyone who assaulted police officers at the Capitol on January 6th to receive compensation. and Trump administration officials have refused to take that off the table as part of this package. Yeah, the Republicans, they've kind of punted a vote on that package. It was going to fund ICE in the Border Patrol until June, but because of all of this controversy over this fund and whether or not those who assaulted police officers were involved in the January 6th riot could actually apply. A lot of people and it's, you know, a lot of Republicans think this is just not a good look. Right. Well, Stephen Miller, though, he was defending the fund yesterday. We lived through four years of... But more than four years, actually, they've been able to say four years in this case, of unimaginable weaponization of the federal government against innocent people. We've had so many lives, it really goes back, so I would say further, but so many lives destroyed, so many livelihoods ruined, so many people who are deprived of their fundamental rights and freedoms as American citizens. And this settlement is just a small measure of the justice that they are owed.