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Mr. NEGUSE. Mr. Speaker, John F. Kennedy once said that “there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.”
Mr. Speaker, this is one of those issues.
where I stand today, as the worst nightmare of our Framers and our Nation's Founders came to life, when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, this citadel of democracy, attacked police officers, and attempted to enter this Chamber and subvert the peaceful transfer of power.
second term, pardoned 1,600 individuals who were convicted of crimes connected to January 6. Felons, people who attacked police officers here on Capitol Grounds, he pardoned them, gave them a get-out-of-jail- free card.
Now, 15 months later, he again does the unthinkable. He sues the Federal Government that he administers and attempts to secure a $10 billion shakedown from the IRS. When that fails, when he realizes that that isn't politically palatable, that the American people won't tolerate Donald Trump signing a $10 billion check of their hardworking money to himself, he dispatches the Acting Attorney General, his former personal attorney, to negotiate a so-called settlement.
The outcome? A nearly $2 billion slush fund, where the Department of Justice will pay rioters who attacked our Capitol. These individuals will be paid with your money, the money of hardworking taxpayers.
It is unconscionable. It is corrupt. My Republican colleagues in this Chamber do nothing about it.
Where is the Speaker? Where is Mike Johnson? How can he look the officers who guard him every day in the eye, knowing that the people who attacked those officers will now be paid out of this Trump slush fund?
It is outrageous. If there were ever a time for political courage, now would be it.
abhor what this is, just a handful. The Speaker of the House of Representatives—let me say it clearly—Mike Johnson owes the country an answer.
Capitol Police officers, to be paid with taxpayer dollars out of this slush fund? If not, what does he intend to do to stop it?
We have a bill that has been introduced. I believe it will be bipartisan. There are Members of the U.S. Senate on both sides who are pushing to try to stop this from materializing. The Speaker could end it today.
We are not asking him for much. Show a modicum of courage.