Senate Republicans voted on Thursday morning to defeat an amendment sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to prohibit the Justice Department from establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for MAGA allies, a proposal that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers this week the administration would abandon.
Notably, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jon Husted (R-Ohio) — who all face tough reelection races in November — voted for Schumer’s amendment.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to defeat an amendment sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) to redirect the nearly $1.8 billion proposed for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “anti-weaponization” fund to bolster the budget for cracking down on fraud against U.S. taxpayers.
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The Senate launched a voting blitz on Thursday as it moves toward passing a $70 billion budget reconciliation package that would fund immigration enforcement agencies.
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Steve Kroft, a longtime correspondent for CBS News’s “60 Minutes” who retired in 2019, said the program “no longer exists” in a new interview. Read more. |
On Thursday, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he would vote against the confirmation of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, adding to the list of lawmakers who have criticized President Trump’s potential nomination.
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Vulnerable Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) broke with Senate Republican leaders Thursday and voted for a Democratic amendment to commit the $70 billion budget reconciliation package to the Judiciary Committee to investigate insurance companies denying medical care to patients.
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President Trump claimed Democrats are “trying to steal” the elections in California, as the results from races that were expected to take days or even weeks to be decided continue to trickle in.
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Republicans hoping to keep control of Congress in a tough election year have been thrown off-balance by President Trump’s focus on foreign policy, pet projects, and statements dismissing the importance of the midterms and cost-of-living issues.
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Business mogul Kevin O’Leary said late Wednesday he is willing to scale back his controversial 40,000-acre artificial intelligence data center campus in Utah after mounting backlash over the development’s size and environmental impact.
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