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The former popular voting-losing, twice-impeached, insurrectionist Republican frontrunner for the White House has put his party in a bind following his arrest on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. That part isn’t what Republicans are fretting over. No, it’s the former guy’s calls for defunding the FBI and Justice Department following his arrest that’s once more thrown them into disarray.
Enter Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is planning to introduce a resolution to formally reject Trump’s calls to defund federal law enforcement. “The former President and his allies in Congress must not subjugate justice and public safety because of their own personal grievances,” Schumer said. Trump’s demand that Congress strip funding for the Department of Justice is “a baseless, self-serving broadside against the men and women who keep our nation safe,” he said.
Those Trump allies in Congress are mostly in the House, and in power. Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who holds the chair of the Judiciary Committee, is all for it. “We control the power of the purse” Jordan said. “And we’re gonna have to look at the appropriations process and limit funds going to some of these agencies, particularly the ones who are engaged in the most egregious behavior.” That’s what he told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo following Trump’s indictment. “So the DOJ and the FBI?” Bartiromo asked. “Yeah,” Jordan confirmed.
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