Republicans Flee Work Early to Avoid Voting on Trump’s Slush Fund
https://newrepublic.com/post/210815/republicans-flee-work-early-avoid-voting-trump-slush-fund
Republicans Flee Work Early to Avoid Voting on Trump’s Slush Fund
https://newrepublic.com/post/210815/republicans-flee-work-early-avoid-voting-trump-slush-fund
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“Cop beaters refund”
What work? So they’ll rather run than stand and tell him to stop stealing from his own country?
So, they’re leaving to give him and the DOJ time to just do it, move the money and say “welp we were going to vote, can’t do anything now”.
The acting U.S. attorney general, Blanche, shrugged off concerns that Jan. 6 rioters will be eligible for payouts: “People that hurt police get money all the time.”
Good, just keep it closed until midterms. Not that they are doing anything otherwise.
I’m sure their fellow Republicans will [quickly issued civil arrest warrants for them and order state troopers to help find and arrest them](https://apnews.com/article/us-election-2026-texas-redistricting-136cfeddc717f9fc69337bd3d39b1819), right?
Great to know they can get away with shit that if <I> did at work … I’d be fired in a heartbeat. Double standard to the nth degree.
Cowardice, thy name is GOP
The last forty years of politics summarized in a single headline, just replace the proper names with generic fill ins (eg “Elected Public Servants Leave Work Early To Avoid Doing Their Fucking Job”) for forty years just saying “woops that’s above my paygrade” and also “hey my pay isn’t high enough” and also “hey no that’s our job you can’t decide those kinds of things” and also “hey that’s not my responsibility, you guys gotta figure it out for yourself” and this is all referring to a single issue because none of their logic makes any GOddamn sense
Corrupt cowards
So Congress steals our tax dollars by avoiding the work they are elected and paid to do to so they don’t have to vote on the president stealing our tax dollars. Make it make sense!!
Act like its a vote for clean water or air and flee the state
too cowardly to just vote against it?
interesting…I feel like there is a certain set of people in Texas trying to jail set of people for “leaving the state” before they could vote on some stuff too…
What a bunch of spineless fucking cowards.
We pay the salaries of these fucking cowards. They gave over all their power to Trump so they never need to do anything difficult, and now they run away at at the first sign on actual work or decision making.
The Repedocan Party in a nutshell, truly worthless for America and its people.
TMZ if you’re listening…
Republicans are terrified to sign their name to a bill allowing trump to have a 1.8 billion dollar taxpayer slush fund to payoff criminals. They’re going home early to avoid having a spine or to simply let it happen without a vote.
Corruption and cowardice have never been seen at this level in the history of American politics, let alone publicly like this. The republicans are wetting themselves in fear of King Trump or they’re slipping their hand into the taxpayer cookie jar. Perhaps the most mask off moment in Republican history.
Republicans: The party of thieves and cowards.
Remember that one time a certain party did everything they could to hold up the 9-11 victims fund because it was too expensive?
Trump will be gone soon, but the smell of Republican dishonor will remain forever.
Alternatively, they could just say no and continue working. That is what one does when dealing with petulant children.
Cowards; every single one of them.
Why the fuck do we pay these people $175,000/yr (and rising) if they never do a god damn day of work?
Laziest, most corrupt, gaggle of cucks I’ve ever seen.
Imagine getting bullied by a pedophile covered in his own shit.
“…and Sir Robin bravely ran away!”.
If people run away from a vote to avoid that vote, then the people remaining in the capital should vote.
Don’t hold off this vote
They voted against me paying back my loans under SAVE because it was Biden’s plan, therefore, illegal… but a fund to pay out people who committed treason on January 6 is perfectly legal.
The Republican voters who keep these tools in power are just as bad as the Jan 6 rioters. They are all traitors who don’t give a damn about the Constitution, our democracy, or the blatant corruption of the GOP.