[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 16, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on the slush fund, Trump's slush fund, 
anyone who seriously thinks Trump has any intention of dropping his 
plans for a MAGA slush fund that will funnel billions of tax dollars to 
him and his cronies clearly hasn't been paying attention.
  Trump hasn't even intended to promise that he is done with this slush 
fund and saying instead that the corrupt scheme is ``a beautiful 
thing.'' That is what Trump said. Republicans said he is going to end 
it, some of them. He says it is ``a beautiful thing.'' Whom do you 
believe?
  Trump said it is ``a beautiful thing. I love it. I think it's so 
important.'' That is what he said about the slush fund.
  So anyone who thinks Trump is ready to forgo it is sadly mistaken. 
They are not listening to his words; they are not listening to who he 
is.
  The only way to ensure Trump's corrupt taxpayer-funded slush fund 
never sees the light of day is to ban it permanently by law and also 
ban Trump's sweetheart tax deal that gives Trump and his family a 
permission slip to commit tax fraud for a lifetime.
  That is why I will force Republicans to answer for Trump's slush fund 
and IRS sweetheart deal today. I am going to force the Republicans to 
answer for this Trump slush fund and the IRS sweetheart deal by asking 
to ban it by law on the floor.
  Senate Republicans have already refused to outlaw the fund, and now 
they will have to show the country whom they stand for once again: 
American taxpayers or Donald Trump; working families or cop-beating 
insurrectionists.
  It is unbelievable. Republicans seem to think that a promise from 
Todd Blanche, who built his career on bending the truth in service to 
Trump, and a hope and a prayer that Trump will suddenly find a 
conscience are enough to stop the slush fund. It makes no sense.
  Republicans won't be able to wash their hands of Trump's effort to 
defraud the American people at a time when they are struggling to make 
ends meet as costs skyrocket.

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