Top Democrat blasts $500,000 Tuberville ‘slush fund’ in shutdown deal: ‘Real-time corruption’
The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives slammed a provision tucked in a spending bill to reopen the federal government that allows U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. and seven other senators to sue the government.
The House leader characterized the measure as a “slush fund” that takes taxpayer funds away from the American people.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was referring to a provision that will let Tuberville and seven other Republican senators sue the federal government for at least $500,000 apiece because they were not notified that their phone records were accessed as part of then-special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Jan. 6.