“Republicans in Congress did WHAT???”
You have to wonder whene does this stop. Republicans voted themselves in to receive funding for being in Congress session during the January 6 riots at the Capitol. Washington D.C. They have moxie to count themselves into this payback set forth by Trump. This comes after stealing healthcare benefits from millions of citizens.
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Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.
Rep. Mike Levin took to X to announce that he had introduced an amendment to block members of Congress, the president, and the vice president from collecting any money from the controversial fund unless a court specifically orders it. Every Republican on the committee voted against his amendment, according to his video.
God forbid a person needing food and rent subsidies collect government aid to afford any of this. Damn Republicans apply for aid due to a Trump inspired riot at the capitol January 6, 2021.
Trump whipped his supporters into a violent frenzy by knowingly lying to them for months about the election results, summoning them to the Ellipse on January 6, directing them to march to the Capitol, encouraging them to press Vice President Mike Pence to abandon his constitutional duties, and then refusing for hours to tell them to stop their attack. House Judiciary Committee Democrats | The Fifth Anniversary of January 6, 2021.
Like these jackasses really suffered from an attack on the White House inspired by Donald Trunmp because he lost the election.
“Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump’s $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up,” Levin wrote in the caption.
The California Democrat said the vote allows MAGA Republicans in Congress, along with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, to position themselves as victims of “government weaponization” and collect settlement funds out of the pool Trump created.
“That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of,” Levin wrote.
The reaction was immediate. Former GOP insider Tara Setmayer reposted Levin’s thread with a single line.
“Republicans in Congress did WHAT???” Setmayer wrote.
Media producer Roy Bellamy offered a different take.
“I hope this ends up like a class action suit and everyone gets 35 cents,” Bellamy wrote.
Disability rights advocate James Tate kept it simple.
“Republicans love stealing tax dollars,” Tate wrote on X.
“Alarm as GOP lawmakers hand themselves cash offer: ‘Republicans in Congress did what???'” Raw Story David McAfee
Myth vs. Facts January 6th 2021