Funds meant for Secret Service were transferred to project president promised would be financed by private donations
Donald Trump’s administration has quietly redirected $352m in federal funds designated for the Secret Service toward the president’s controversial White House ballroom project, despite repeated promises by Trump that the construction would be financed by private donations
The funds were drawn from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump’s signature tax legislation passed last summer on Republican-only votes. The law stipulates the money may only be spent on Secret Service personnel, training facilities, technology and related costs, not construction.
About $340.8m of the funding was placed into an account labeled “Procurement, Construction, and Improvements” on 12 June, according to the office of management and budget (OMB) database. Another account labeled “Operations and Support” was also approved the same day, adding another $10.75m to the budget.
Yes.
The Supreme Court decided the President is above the law, so it stands to reason the next President could steal everything from Trump, sodomize him with a FIFA world cup trophy, neuter him with rusty gardening shears, revoke his citizenship, and throw him in Guantanamo. As long as these are all done as official acts by the President.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
Somehow I think that if a president starts nationalizing the assets of rich white people, SCOTUS is going to decide it’s not an official act.
First official act would be go after the scotus.
Guarantee that the next president, if they’re not a Republican will come up with some bullshit like “we have to show decorum” and “we must rise above and unite as a country”.
The Democrats will have precisely one more chance to hold MAGATS and Trump to account for their crimes. I’ll put money on them wasting that opportunity
The Republican partisan hacks of the SCROTUS decide what an official act is or isn’t, though, so it’s not an official act if a Democrat does it.