DeLauro Statement on Court Temporarily Blocking President Trump’s Corrupt $1.8 Billion Criminal Payout Scheme

WASHINGTON – Following the ruling by a federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia temporarily blocking the creation of President Trump’s corrupt $1.8 billion criminal payout scheme, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement:

“President Trump’s flagrantly corrupt scheme to use taxpayer money to pay out his political allies and violent criminals who assaulted police officers should never have been attempted in the first place. It is obscene that the administration is trying to funnel $1.8 billion to violent criminals who were charged, tried, convicted, and then pardoned after assaulting police officers and ransacking the Capitol on January 6. President Trump wants to send criminals paychecks while slashing funding for domestic programs that help working families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. The administration must abandon this unprecedented and corrupt effort to steal taxpayer dollars.”

This temporary freeze from the court comes after every Republican on the House Appropriations Committee voted last week to allow themselves to be enriched from this corrupt and illegal scheme.

See the unanimous vote against Congressman Mike Levin’s amendment here.

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