[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 126 (Monday, August 3, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S4403]
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                       Nomination of Todd Blanche

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, well, make no mistake, Todd Blanche has 
no intention of stopping Trump's corruption. He has spent his career 
enabling it.
  Instead of seeing Todd Blanche's so-called deal for the sham that it 
is, Senate Republicans are, once again, taking Trump's personal 
attorney at his word. All Blanche's deal does is accept the reality 
that Trump's MAGA slush fund is never getting through the courts. 
Blanche's so-called deal does nothing--nothing--to stop the IRS 
sweetheart deal that lets Trump and his family cheat their way out of 
tens of millions of dollars in taxes.
  Let me repeat that. Blanche is still perfectly fine with giving Trump 
a permission slip to commit tax fraud to the tune of tens of millions 
of dollars.
  Is the Senate GOP willing to go along with Trump's tax fraud? Blanche 
certainly is.
  Senate Republicans keep pretending that Blanche made real concessions 
on the slush fund. The truth is he just gave up a fight he had already 
lost in court.
  And there is no guardrail preventing Trump and Blanche from using 
taxpayer dollars to give cash payouts to violent January 6 
insurrectionists, MAGA billionaires, and the Trump family.
  Trump won't even hide his intention to resurrect his MAGA cash 
rewards program. Just last night, Trump said: ``A lot of people like'' 
the slush fund. Those were his words. He said it. He said it ``would be 
a reimbursement for the pain that'' January 6 insurrectionists 
``suffered.''
  Where is the reimbursement for the economic pain Trump has inflicted 
on the American people with his rampant corruption and his disastrous 
agenda?
  No one wants this slush fund, other than Trump and his cronies. There 
has never been a more clear-cut case of self-dealing in American 
history. Trump sued himself, settled with himself, and then gave 
himself tax immunity for life and $2 billion to either pocket--in his 
own pocket--from the Federal Treasury or pass out to bad people, all at 
the taxpayers' expense.
  Senate Republicans, if you truly care about ending this corruption, 
then work with us to ban it by law. Don't put the architect of Trump's 
grifts in charge of the Department of Justice.
  (The remarks of Mr. SCHUMER pertaining to the introduction of S. 5212 
are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills 
and Joint Resolutions.'')