Thomas Massey

I think they should blame the Congress.

But in this case, there's no ambiguity.

We control the Senate, the House, and the White House.

And when you say, oh, it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass anything, yeah, it takes 60 votes to spend money.

Like the money would stop if you can't get 60 votes in the Senate.

It's like the other way around because the money expires every year unless you do a CR or an omnibus.

So this is a place where I have diverged with Republicans because they took Joe Biden's budget and used the big, beautiful bill, added hundreds of billions of dollars of spending to it.

And this is where I get the ads run against me.

Even though I voted for a wall and I voted most recently to fund DHS, there was extra money for DHS and DOJ, which includes FBI, in the big, beautiful bill.

And I said, we can't afford this.

And that's why they can run the ads that say I voted against DHS.

Well, it's ironic because I defended him when he gave Stormy Daniels money.

This came up in front of us when I was on the oversight committee, and they were trying to turn it into a crime because they said he should have run it through a campaign account instead of paying her personally.

Right.

I can tell you this, if I told my treasurer I wanted to pay some woman to be quiet with my campaign money, he would say, no, you'll go to jail for that.

So they were actually trying to prosecute the president because he didn't do it a certain way, which certainly would have gotten him in jail, right?

And I pointed that out.

And also at the time, I pointed out in that hearing, this was three years ago, I think there was a congressional slush fund that did the same thing, but with taxpayer dollars to pay off people who had been harassed or sexually abused by congressmen and their staff.

And nobody wanted to hear that in that hearing, but I blew the whistle on that too.

What happened to the slush fund?