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The Republican Congress has been hard at work this week trying to shovel another $70 billion of our money to Donald Trump so that ICE can keep rounding up immigrants and locking them away in barbaric detention camps.

Trump wants even more, of course, a billion dollars for his ballroom and one point eight billion dollars for a slush fund he could use to make cash payments to convicted criminals who stormed the Capitol on January 6th.

Republicans denied him the ballroom money in this bill, but they did on Thursday block a Democratic amendment that would have killed the J6 slush fund.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch said this week that they wouldn't be moving forward with the slush fund.

But when Trump was asked about that,

He gave an answer that surprised absolutely no one.

I love it.

I think it's so important.

On Thursday, he did a clean coal event in the Oval Office where we all thought he'd elaborate on the future of the slush fund, but instead he dozed off several times in between his home renovation updates, which today included an announcement of yet another brand new construction project.

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