The Best Solution to the Weaponization Settlement Fund "Controversy" is the simplest and Most Obvious: Transparency

[Seymour Flops]

Screaming, yelling and accusations of self-dealing.

That’s how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that’s drawn bipartisan opposition.

On his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Texas senator described the meeting as “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”

“Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said. “My guess is there’re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”

Senate Republicans met with Blanche on Thursday to discuss the fund, which ultimately derailed a vote on a Republican bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, NBC News previously reported.

Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing

The private meeting came hours before the Senate postponed a critical vote to advance a partisan funding bill for ICE and Border Patrol.

www.nbcnews.com

Why was the meeting closed door? Did Dims insist on it so they could display their rabid and venomous tempers away from the voters?

Instead of throwing a tantrum and delaying a vote on a completely unrelated bill that will make Americans safer when it inevitably passes, why not make this rule/law:

All requests for settlements from the fund will be resolved at a public hearing. Let the applicant address his greivances to the board in a very public hearing, with at least one video feed to the media and one to the public. Let him present documentation and let that documentation be made public.

If a Capitol Police Officer, or anyone else, objects to this or that individual getting funds, let them speak at the hearing. If they TACO (Trump-bashers Always Chicken Out), then the board will have only the testimony and records of the applicant to go by.

Maybe there is a legitimate objection to that idea. If so, I'm all ears.

 

[Blaster]

The GOP is divided and the Democrats are unified.

 

[pknopp]

Pay for it.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The GOP is divided and the Democrats are unified.

The GOP has a few professional douchebags that gain media attention by attacking Trump. We saw what happened to Massie and Cassidy once the voters finally got a chance to express their thoughts on them doing that.

 

[Moonglow]

Screaming, yelling and accusations of self-dealing.

That’s how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that’s drawn bipartisan opposition.

On his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Texas senator described the meeting as “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”

“Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said. “My guess is there’re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”

Senate Republicans met with Blanche on Thursday to discuss the fund, which ultimately derailed a vote on a Republican bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, NBC News previously reported.

Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing

The private meeting came hours before the Senate postponed a critical vote to advance a partisan funding bill for ICE and Border Patrol.

www.nbcnews.com

Why was the meeting closed door? Did Dims insist on it so they could display their rabid and venomous tempers away from the voters?

Instead of throwing a tantrum and delaying a vote on a completely unrelated bill that will make Americans safer when it inevitably passes, why not make this rule/law:

All requests for settlements from the fund will be resolved at a public hearing. Let the applicant address his greivances to the board in a very public hearing, with at least one video feed to the media and one to the public. Let him present documentation and let that documentation be made public.

If a Capitol Police Officer, or anyone else, objects to this or that individual getting funds, let them speak at the hearing. If they TACO (Trump-bashers Always Chicken Out), then the board will have only the testimony and records of the applicant to go by.

Maybe there is a legitimate objection to that idea. If so, I'm all ears.

Yer suggestions are worth a pile of dog shit since you are not an office holder able to make such provisions. It is moar of a constitutional questions to it's legality.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Pay for it.

What, the hearings?

That can come out of the settlement fund that congress already authorized.

It will save money because people who truly broke the law and were not treated unfairly won't want to be publically embarassed so they won't apply.