Alarm as GOP lawmakers hand themselves cash offer: 'Republicans in Congress did what???'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

May 23, 2026 4:56PM ET


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.

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.

"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.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/gop-lawmakers-alarm-self-dealing/

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Of course they did. (eyeroll)

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. POOL! WHAT F*CKING POOL?

He didn't create a damn thing. Stop with his speaking points.

You mean our tax dollars. The hard earned money that the American taxpayers paid to run our Government. The one you're cutting services from that are supposed to serve all Americans.
The money the Felonious rapist is stealing to pay for home improvements while every American has to stretch their budgets to pay for his f*ckups.

"Tariffs, ruining agricultural crops, starting unnecessary wars, blowing up the price of oil, cutting billionaire taxes while cutting Federal services. Enriching his family and taking advantage of the stock market that he is responsible for manipulating. Self dealing with other Countries for his own profits. Embezzling money from other Countries and kept who knows where under his control.

Yeah, "the pool he created". Idiots!

[SamuelAdams]

3. Them stealing our tax dollars was the entire point.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

4. As per Grover Norquist ...

... "Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333

That seems to be forgotten/neglected amidst the current attack(s) on government.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. He also said this that I post often (from 2012)

[republianmushroom]

5. Jesus, those republicans are a bunch of crooks.

[Bayard]

6. Everybody gets a car!!