1. United States
2. Mass.
3. Letter

The President of the United States sued the government he runs and crafted a settlement with agency heads he can fire to give him $1.7 billion of our money he can use to reward his allies and foot soldiers. And all while he’s telling us we can’t afford food assistance or cheaper health care! This is open corruption, a president using taxpayer funds as a personal piggy bank. This is cash going from hard-working Americans to enrich the thugs who beat law enforcement with flagpoles and fire extinguishers to try to overturn an election. Pay-offs would be doled out by a commission with zero transparency requirements, whose members would be appointed by Trump’s own attorney general and could be removed by him at will. If we saw this in another country, we know exactly what we’d call it. New York legislators are refusing to accept this crooked deal. They’ve proposed an Anti-Insurrectionist Act, taxing any bribes out of this fund to state residents at 100%. This sort of measure should be passed in our state as soon as possible. If Congress won’t stop us from being robbed, it’s up to our legislators and governors to recover our money.