Boyle Statement on DOJ’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced it is setting up a $1.8 billion slush fund for President Trump and his insurrectionist followers:

“This is sickening. While Americans are struggling with higher costs, Donald Trump is finding a way to funnel taxpayer dollars to insurrectionists and violent criminals.

This fund should not exist, and not a single cent should go to Donald Trump’s family, his donors, or anyone who rioted, destroyed property, or ransacked the Capitol. If anyone deserves support, it is the Capitol Police officers who were wounded defending our democracy on January 6, 2021, and the families of officers who died in the aftermath.

As Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, I will do everything I can to stop this corrupt abuse of taxpayer dollars.”

Ranking Member Boyle also signed an amicus brief urging a federal court to block this settlement.

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