Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Slamming Donald Trump’s Corrupt Weaponization Of The DOJ To Shield His Family From Tax Audits And Enrich His MAGA Loyalists

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor to denounce President Trump's abuse of the Department of Justice in granting himself and his family immunity from tax audits and creating a nearly 2-billion-dollar slush fund to reward his MAGA loyalists. Leader Schumer also warned his Republican colleagues that Senate Democrats will force a vote to put Republicans on the record over this administration's blatant corruption. Below are Leader Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

It's been a hell of a bad week for Donald Trump and his Republicans, maybe the worst week they have ever had. Bogged down by Donald Trump's stunningly corrupt MAGA slush fund, Trump's billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded ballroom, and record-breaking gas costs as we approach the Memorial Day weekend, Republicans are having a terrible, terrible week - one that may even rival as bad a week that they had when they passed their so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill."

And it's only Wednesday. It's only Wednesday. But however bad this week is for Republicans - and believe me its bad - it's even worse for the American people.

Yesterday, Trump's Department of Justice expanded the settlement he made with himself, granting him and his family immunity from tax audits. Did you hear that America? Trump just gave his family a license to commit tax fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more. He is using nearly two billion of your taxpayer dollars he's placed in a slush fund to enrich his MAGA loyalists.

Trump doesn't have to pay his taxes, and meanwhile he's using your tax dollars, America, to line the pockets of his family and his the far-right cronies.

The naked corruption, something as low and depraved as we have ever seen, is absolutely egregious. Only in Trump's Washington could a president sue himself, settle with himself, and somehow still stick the American people with the bill. Who would have thought that even a man as depraved and low as Donald Trump, as dishonest and as selfish, would do something like this.?

Trump's slush fund is a heist where the robber owns the bank, runs the police department, and gets to pardon himself on the way out.

Just as egregious as how Trump stole this money is who he plans to give it to: his billionaire cronies, convicted criminals, and the cop-beaters who maimed our brave United States Capitol Police on January, the 6th. Meanwhile, Trump is making a deal with himself, shaking hands with himself on a corrupt deal as he shakes down the American people.

Republican Senators should make no mistake: Democrats are going to force Republican Senators to vote on this slush fund, on the floor, in the upcoming reconciliation bill in the next day or two.

Republicans will not be able to duck or to hide. Are you for the slush fund, this evil, corrupt slush fund, or are you against it? Are you going to bow down to Donald Trump when you know how egregious, how despicable, how nasty, how disgusting this slush fund is? Will you bow down to Trump? Will you vote for the slush fund or against it?

Democrats will force them to take a stand in the next day.

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