Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Vowing Senate Democrats Will Launch A Relentless Campaign Against Trump’s Corrupt $2 Billion Slush Fund

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor blasting Donald Trump and Senate Republicans for supporting Trump's $2 billion slush fund for MAGA allies and January 6^th insurrectionists and vowing that Senate Democrats will fight to permanently block it. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The press reports that Trump says he will table his $2 billion MAGA slush fund, but a promise from Trump is worthless.

If Trump and Republicans are truly abandoning this corrupt scheme, they should have zero problem banning it in law.

This week, Senate Democrats will push legislation to ban this slush fund and ensure no president can ever do this again. Trump's word is nowhere near enough.

Donald Trump's attempt to establish the slush fund alone is one of the most glaring cases of corruption in American history.

Trump's slush fund is the textbook definition of self-dealing.

Trump sued himself, settled with himself, and then Trump gives himself and his family immunity to evade their taxes, and Trump makes you, the American taxpayer, pay for it all.

This slush fund could never have passed the smell test.

At a time when Americans can barely afford to fill their tanks, to keep the lights on, put food on the table, Trump wants the American people to pay for handouts for MAGA billionaires, cop-beating January 6 insurrectionists, and his own family.

He wanted no transparency, no oversight, no accountability.

It's disgusting.

Now Trump is claiming that the slush fund is dead for now, but Democrats will not stop until it's well and truly buried. It can never see the light of day.

Democrats are going to make sure this slush fund is dead and cannot be revived, just like we did with the ballroom.

Republicans can try to wriggle their way out of answering for this corruption all they want, but it won't work.

If Republicans try to force through their reconciliation bill again, the first amendment I will offer will be to ban the slush fund permanently and forever.

If Republicans try to meddle with the appropriations process to do Trump's bidding, we'll fight it there too.

And if Republicans try to use toothless "constraints" to make the slush fund more palatable, we will press them to dismantle it entirely.

For something as inherently corrupt as this slush fund, half measures won't cut it.

You don't fix a corrupt slush fund by relying on the word of the most untrustworthy president we've ever had. You ban it.

This slush fund is rotten to core. Democrats will make Republicans vote on it no matter what.

This is corruption in broad daylight, and Republicans are foolish to think they can hide in the shadows.

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