An open letter to the U.S. Congress

BLOCK Trump's criminal payout slush fund & ballroom OVERSIGHT & IMPEACHMENT NOW

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STOP Trump's corrupt slush fund. Take back and enforce Congress's constitutionally enshrined appropriations powers. ABC News reports that Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a $1.7 billion slush fund-- that fund will be used for payouts, *taxpayer-funded* payouts, to MAGA allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden Administration. Everyone who cares about the rule of law and curtailing corruption should be outraged. The government of, by, and for, The People IS *NOT* SUPPOSED TO BE A PRIVATE CASH DISPENSER to reward the President's friends, allies, and those who break the law on his behalf. As you know, Trump has been abusing his pardon power to pardon January 6 insurrectionists and law breakers. (You are surely also aware that a number of those pardoned have subsequently been re-arrested for other serious offences.) This presidential slush fund payout scheme is unconscionable, unconstitutional, and reeks of criminality. It also points to a sinister aspiration to create and reward a private force willing to break the law in support of an aspiring dictator. Will you tolerate it? Read what a professor of constitutional law says: ""The President has no authority to conjure up billion-dollar compensation schemes or raid the Judgment Fund which exists to settle valid lawsuits. Trump is systematically converting neutral government mechanisms into a presidential slush fund to build his army of political dependents." (H/TJamie Raskin, House Judiciary Committee) I write to demand that you block this corrupt payout scheme and also stop all funds to the illegal ballroom and other vanity projects which, like the ballroom, lack public utility and planning approval-- namely the ballroom, the triumphal arch, and the illegally contracted overpriced unapproved paint job on the reflecting pool. Have you forgotten that Trump is a tenant in the White House, not a permanent resident? History will remember what Congress does in 2026 and will judge this Congress. No more blather about alleged fraud in social security or other entitlements or benefits we need to survive. STOP THE CORRUPTION perpetrated by TRUMP. Please use all the tools at your disposal-- Hearings, oversight, subpoenas, legislation, judicial referrals and impeachment-- To halt this moral, legal, and financial abuse. I am counting on you to uphold your oath to the constitution and your commitment to the rule of law and fiscal and judicial probity.

▶ Created on May 15 by Mary · 3,331 signers in the past 7 days

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