Buried on page 217 of the Senate Continuing Resolution Bill [TEXT HERE], Republican Senators have inserted legislation to “retroactively” pay themselves $500,000 each for every line of communication, telephone record, email or other electronic communication, subpoenaed by the Jack Smith Special Counsel during the Arctic Frost investigation.
The payment is a penalty for retroactive subpoenas going back to January 1, 2022. The payment is at least $500,000 per phone line or email account. That means each Republican Senator is going to make millions from the subpoenas that Jack Smith previously used.
House Representative Austin Scott is not happy the Republican Senators slipped this into the bill. WATCH:
The Bill Text is Available Here – Starting on Page 217
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There is no honour among thieves, parasites, and grifters…
Ladies and gentlemen…
I give you the United States Congress.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap. The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price. There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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In other words, the Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — THE SHUTDOWN!
💰———-///- all are scum❗️
The legislature and judicial branches: dystopian horror show.
Amen Bet! 🤮🤢🤮🤢
ESPECIALLY rinos. At least dems are open about their criminality.
Those three short sentences should be on every billboard that surrounds Washington DC. If it were summer, I would add airplanes flying banners.
Senate GOP is following the famous example of the old Tammany Hall: “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em.”
“Every good man looks after his friends, and any man who doesn’t isn’t likely to be popular. If I have a good thing to hand out in private life, I give it to a friend. Why shouldn’t I do the same in public life?” (George Washington Plunkitt, D-NYC, 1905)
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/city/honest-graft
Simply incredible.
It’s a big club, but we are not in it.
Jack Smith and his “team” should personally pay the fines to the senators, not the taxpayer (“government”)
Stupid, greedy and myopic republican senators.
Embarrassing.
You left out “insipid.”
I see it for what it is. The Republicans will do anything to damage the R brand before November 2026 mid-term elections.
People donate more to their campaigns when they are in the minority.
This is absolutely DISGUSTING! Why the heck would they even put that into a must pass CR? The sheer absurdity of it, the GREED… and the fact that this money would come from the US Taxpayer.
I am beyond flabbergasted!
Who did this?
We deserve names.
Yes, start naming names! We need to see who these Charmin azzwipes are! Who suggested it be included? NAMES, put it up on billboards! The effing media will supply cover! Put it on where every John Q. Public can see it!
Well, the people getting the awards would have done it, right?? Don’t overthink it.
Who did this???
Each and every Republican Senator did this when they voted for the CR (except for Rando Paul-he voted no).
Start reading the names of the Republicans in the Senate, skip Paul’s name, and when you finish you will have your answer.
Tell me that someone didn’t want to scuttle the deal to reopen the Federal government, and flip the script onto the GOPe contingent owning the shutdown.
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
You make an excellent point.
The RepubliCon wing of the UniParty is desperately trying to sabotage President Trump. If they can steal millions of dollars from the taxpayers of America and defeat our President at the same time, that’s a win-win.
The viper taking a “ride” on the turtle crossing the river…
Don’t insult vipers—or turtles!!!
SPIT!!!
Yet again, Sundance’s basic rule of DC motivations proves true:
Democrats quest for power; Republicans quest for money. Democrats trade money for power; Republicans trade power for money.
I won’t be surprised if the capitol building burns to the ground soon. We need to start over.
The building isn’t the problem! It’s who is in it!
Trump should tell ’em he’s not signing that garbage.
Then the spin will be that he’ll own the shutdown if the bill makes it through reconciliation and he vetos it.
The Uniparty oh so loves inflicting catch-22’s on President Trump.
But, and I’m sorry to bring this up, members of his family are going to benefit financially from rebuilding Gaza. So there is that….
Bets itll be signed by the president? Bet folks will continue to make excuses for their side?
This is unconscionable. Already far and above wealthier than most Americans, and they deign themselves worthy of reparations!? How about the PEOPLE!
Can we recall senators en masse?
It is no longer a “clean” CR
They have names. Who?
Who did this?
All Repubs voted for it
And not a squeak of protestation from the Dems.
No one reads it. I want to go back to jan/feb where DOGE nit-picked the bills shined light in the non-sense, and shamed Congress in to amending the bill.
Of course they didn’t Betsy – why would they prevent the people they hate from doing something so insanely stupid, knowing it would become public? Heck, they probably helped them write it to make the petard to be hoisted upon that much sharper.
I think they are too afraid of bringing more attention to Artic Frost and who was in charge of the DOJ at the time.
Then again, after they’re done with the infighting, finger pointing and back biting of one another, they might decide to fire up the rage machine about it.
Not Massie Or Paul..
Rand Paul voted for it, Kennedy?
Rand is the only one who didn’t. He still sucks.
No ex post facto laws can be passed according to Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 3.
An ex post facto law is a criminal statute that retroactively punishes conduct that was legal at the time it was committed.
First, is this Senate law a criminal statute, and second, was the conduct by Boasberg legal or not at the time?
If it turns out this is not ex post facto law, then Senate can do this, whether we like it or not.
My first thought upon seeing this!
Compensation for ex post facto criminal conduct should be null and void!
Who will sue and take this to court?
Any taxpayer should “have standing” since our tax dollars will be milked to pay these scummy villains.
Standing for this challenge from the same courts that refused to give standing to any and all the cases involving ballot fraud in 2020?
I do not expect the courts to even acknowledge any of the merits of such a case.
True, which is why I used the Subjunctive Mood’s “should” in should have standing.
The odds are that our corrupt, corrupted, and corruptible courts will say that any such lawsuit “lacks standing.”
Kudos to Rep. Scott for reading the bill rather than blindly voting before seeing what’s in it. Anyone inclined can thank him here:
United States Congressman Austin Scott
In the meantime, the GOP just made the Democrat Party popular again.
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
– George Carlin
Meanwhile, I .. a lowly pleb, receives a piddling 2% cola on my meager SSA..
ALL OF THE SENATE PUNKS WHO VOTED FOR THIS BLATANT GRIFT NEED TO HANG.
Yep, I am also one of the lowly plebes!
.. By their chads!
Why are the taxpayers indemnifying the criminal activity of Jack Smith and his Democrat handlers? Just another ploy to fracture the MAGA base?
You have to remember that most of the Senators despise PDJT – and are willing to do ANYTHING to disrupt his plan and prevent him from having a chance in hell of actually solving problems and cleaning up the government to any degree. That’s BOTH sides of the entrenched, corrupt scum.
The senate thinks very highly of themselves. They seem to be beyond introspection or even what this shows the common people about them. Narcissists one and all.
I think the word you want is criminals.
Like thieves in the night .
Each and every Senator who voted for the CR with this insane clause in it is guilty of looting the treasury and should spend the rest of their lives in prison.
If thier avarice is so egregious, how about them getting their fill of molten gold? Seems very much like an Aztec thing to do.
Yes! Round them up- ask questions later
There are not words adequate to express my disgust with my government.
We cannot hate them enough.
‘We have met the enemy, and he is us…..’
Seeing as The Senate have publicly acknowledged that all they want is money then they can drop the filibuster and pass all the laws and appointments that President Trump wants.
I think the mid terms just took a huge hit.
These bastards want to lose in 2026. Disgusting maggots. They hate MAGA, they hate all of us.
Don’t insult maggots! At least they have a purpose in God’s creation.
Good grief, can the grifting get any more obvious….thieves all…
This leaves no doubt that all the USAID kick backs were being spread out among BOTH parties. What a scummy move. In a slight change to the adage, they can’t hate US enough!
The very fact the Senate saw fit to add a bill for restitution should an agency they fund in the budgetary process “spy” on them, and not make sure every single American citizen does not have those same rights screams it’s way past time to get rid of the 17th Amendment so that the focus of members of the Senate returns to be beholding to the actual States they supposedly are in D.C. to represent.
If it’s in the continuing resolution funding bill, does that make it a temporary benefit that expires when actual budgets get passed and approved, or are we, the taxpayers, stuck with funding their slush fun?
exactly .. EXACTLY!
How did dem senators allow that in the bill? What was their cut?
protection from Bondi
Blondi is toothless- Dems aren’t afraid of her.
You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it
Lmaooooo! Repubs don’t have the cajones to do anything like that.
Their cut is to allow the Thune, Turtle, Cotton, and the rest of the merry gang of idiots attempt to destroy this administration.
So the government will be punished for violating the Constitution by paying a fine not only to itself, but to members of the only body which had oversight of those violations, who will then be responsible for ensuring the Constitution is enforced and they can no longer collect millions of dollars from future violations.
That strikes me as the exact opposite of a deterrent to future illegal spying.
This is one of the few times that I hope the MSM runs with a story that is absolutely negative about Republicans and blasts it across EVERY newscast, onto EVERY frontpage, and makes it the number one story on EVERY Sunday talk show!!
The District Of Criminals (DC) are living up to their names.
How much more in our face corruption can possibly be shown ?
I can’t figure out if this is more ridiculous then a multi million dollar handout to the love birds for texts being released on tax dollar cell phones /s
Will PDJT sign this or bring it out in the form of criticism ?
So money is more important to them vs rule of law and justice?
These guys are completely pathetic and every one of them should be voted out of office.
Old habits and old senators die hard.
I’m thinking that they put this clause in there to make sure that the Repubs lose the midterms.
A last ditch effort to stop Trump.
Just another means to stick it to him.
The Uniparty was, and is pulling all the schemes to stop President Trump.
But if he calls them out, doesn’t he look like the Statesman and defender of the Republic?
Wouldn’t his numbers soar w Indies and Dems?
OK, what else is going on for which this is a misdirection? Because you know that something this egregious was going to be “discovered” and make a big, distracting stink.
What an insidious bunch of crooks.
This is nuts. How do we deal with this blatant corruption?
I don
t think you do. We are seeing two systems of justice, its no longer one. Animal Farm comes to mind.When the government misbehaves the taxpayers pay the price.
RINO Scott makes plenty from the Military Industrial Complex. I’m glad he is calleing out these other leeches but, truth is, he is probably just mad he is missing out on the $ millions. ‘They’ had NO reason to spy on corrupt GA Gov. Kemp’s ally, Austin Scott.
Peak MAGA right here.
Ain’t it sweet??
re: poison pill, nefarious behavior, d c politics, miss motivating more shutdowns, debt increasing, d c obfuscations
Nov. 2008 bad quote try to sum up the self serving, nefarious behaviors (and do it with a, uncaring of others, coy grin )
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I (chief of b o staff rh ema nuel) mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before,” which he stated in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in November 2008, framing the financial crisis as a moment to enact significant policy changes that were previously considered impossible.
[ and then there are dc crisis actors, cashing in ]
Maybe some folks are jealou$ of others and have gotten really, really spoiled with their high living,
off of others – and from the national debts.
It is difficult to see where a yes vote on that poison pill,
would be following the oath of office.
[ and the unreliable media is tee’d up to exploit yes, or no, votes. either way can be spun by media…]
2 wrongs (shut down, poison pill) do not make a right.
Now the senators that switched from no, to yes on the CR – can be viewed with fresh perspective
PLUS the ones cashing in,
PLUS the ones j s that miss allowed spying on citizens, or elected officials, without a court order shared with those having the privacy invaded for a long, long, long time. (and are subject to info being publicly shared, or quietly miss leveraged )
imho
hint:
For instance, Signed legislation in 2006 allowed for border security and other matters including a barrier.
But, even though there was legislation, an effective barrier, was NOT funded, until 2019…
Similarly to the 2025 CR…
When there is a will, then there is a way…. (to not fund CR pg 217 to 228 ‘poison’ )
Love thy neighbors
imho
Self serving POS’s. That said, just compensation for wrongs is typically entitled to those who have been wronged but knowing that still doesn’t make these inclusions feel any better.
What did I say about getting banana peeled into that barrel trap last night??
I really loathe the Bunker Class.
I guess the only way to get anything out of the Republican’ts is for everyone who packs the necessary sand to register as Independents, tomorrow, and bust these MF’ERS hustle for good, just like I constantly railed about doing a couple years back all over these threads.
I’ve been Indy since ron! just couldn’t stop sending me garbage trying to get money to run for President. What will cure you of your Republican’t-ism??
I can’t register as Independent to show how
disgusted I am.
🤣 🤣 🤷♀️ 🤷♀️
I did it on Jan 7th. When the sniveling Republican
cowards let the 2020 election get stolen.
It’s a big party….and I refuse to be part of it!
🤬 Neither side.
Just different wings on the same bird..a vulture.
And it’s sh….ah…stuff like this that reinforces my position.
🤬
Greed and entitlement are all they know.
Uniparty Club Rules:
First Rule; you do not talk about the fake Covid pandemic.
Second Rule; You Do NOT Talk About The Fake Covid Pandemic.
Third Rule; you do not talk about the fake 2020 election results.
Notice how nobody talks about it?
WHAT!!??
Why isn’t Trump vetoing the Bill?
Because he likes it?
Surely they each plan to donate to all of the innocent American citizens prosecutez for J6, right? /s
This out of court settlement means they don’t seriously plan to pursue Jack Smith in court, bit that’s not really a surprise to any of us.
FILTHY LIBERALS
Why can’t they stick to insider trading?
We always misunderestimate stupid people in large groups like Corrupt Senators
They know that we know and they don’t care.
FILTHY LIBERALS
I want to know the NAME(S) of the GOP creatures who slid tnis obnoxious thing into this CR bill!
Exactly WHO was behind this corrupt little maneuver?
WHO??!!
My guess is that the Turtle was near the top of the list…
whats the difference between them and Mandami. They’re all just snake oil salesman
The difference is that with the senators you would need eight ropes, but with the mayor you will need only one………..
Embrace recycling & use 1 rope 9x
The difference is that a bunch of us will vote for them because “at least its not as bad as the other guys”… And then wonder why this continues
I’m not leaving the greatest president of my lifetime on the battlefield with a demoncrap HoR or Senate.
Yep, I’ll vote for Ron Johnson.
You can count on me not to vote for Vance.
zoomie refers above to “…snake oil salesman…”.
When I watch a Vance speech all I see is the faces of all the hucksters I ever read about floating across my field of vision.
I guess it would be the snake oil buyers……
Worse.
Where did the list come from? Who verified it?
How would the named senators be able to “slip it in” without the Senate leadership and the rest of the Senate knowing? (setting aside almost none of them read anything themselves…)
I’ve quoted Sundance a few times as I recall him saying, NONE of these ‘representatives’ actually write anything.
It’s done by their masters – the lobbyists who bribe them.
Bad, very bad.
That is the list of Senators spied on.
That’s too convenient.
But for sake of argument…let’s say they did. How effing typical that Thune would allow it.
Can you think of a better way to eliminate the very senators that were a thorn in your side, than to set them up like this?
Marsha Blackburn running around like she had poop in her pants during the Republican Convention in ’24 after the Director of the Secret Service, trying to act like she was REALLY, REALLY concerned about what nearly happened to our lion and what was the Director of the Secret Service had to say about Butler – Ms. Blackburn is one of those I despise the most as she is not putting America First, obviously – just another money-grubbing Republican.
She isn’t called Mushy Marsha for nothing. She’s a grifter and has been since her 2nd term in the House. Got even worse once she became a Senator. Now she gets to grift as Gov of TN. She’ll be “HISTORIC” as the first female governor of TN. I won’t be voting for her.
Someone here always says something about Republicans wanting money…
I would have expected this of Miss Lindsey,
Agree. Targets of Artic Frost or Rhino’s – flip a coin. Seems so childish for those who were part of the Artic Frost/Jack Smith rigamarole to be so incensed that they were being spied on. Welcome to the real world but don’t tell me or any other US taxpayer to pay for whatever makes you unhappy about. If you do the crime, do the time and pay for it yourself.
I think this just got signed despite objections.
I’m going to go find the song “I Wear My Sunglasses at Night.”
“Exactly WHO was behind this corrupt little maneuver?”
unpopular take… WE are behind it. WE are the ones who keep allowing it. WE keep voting for these scumbags, telling ourselves its “better than the alternative” and “we’ll get em next time.”
WE are the ones who, the moment trump said he wants gov opened and another CR – kick the can down the road a bit but less each time – we suddenly cheered it on and threw people like Rand and MTG and Massie under the bus when they asked questions about why we are still not serious about saving the economy and the republic from complete and total collapse.
this is a completely natural outcome of supporting CRs instead of demanding that congress AND the president do a budget or shut it all down. WE SUPPORTED IT.
just watch. watch LINDSEY EFFING GRAHAM get re-elected with the help of trump. at this stage he may be about the ONLY republican who will get the nod in 2026. he sved his butt from the surveillance state – screw you, vote for me again, serf!
just watch!
WE are the ones behind this corrupt maneuver. our passivity and support is our CONSENT.
“The enemy is within the gates…” -Cicero.