[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 70 (Monday, April 28, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ``EXECUTIVE BRANCH'' CLUB

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to share the latest photo of the 
founding of another billionaire private club here in Washington, D.C., 
in Georgetown, for the superrich, spearheaded by Donald Trump, Jr.; JD 
Vance; and their billionaire buddies.
  Members can join for the low price of half a million dollars. They 
offer the richest of the rich a red carpet to buy influence and their 
way to power.
  Meanwhile, working Americans are being crushed with high interest 
rates, 401(k)'s losing value, unaffordable housing, and rising grocery 
prices. At a time when reckless U.S.-Canada Trump-era tariffs are 
devastating our farmers and manufacturers, when layoffs are funding 
cuts and gutting communities, and the Trump elite are toasting 
champagne and eating caviar. Really?
  This executive branch club isn't just an insult to the working class, 
but it is a vivid, grotesque portrait of ruling billionaires focused on 
totally enriching themselves and neglecting our Nation. Imagine what a 
half million dollars would buy in our communities for children or for 
seniors.
  This excess reminds me of the disgusting behavior of Emperor Nero, 
who rightly has been relegated to the dustbin of history.

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