Chris Van Hollen

If Republicans won’t put an end to this fund entirely, they should at least join with us to bar Members of Congress from cashing in on it.

The Trump Department of Justice’s creation of this $1.8 billion slush fund is a gross abuse of taxpayer dollars.

This decision is a strong repudiation of Trump’s lawless DOJ and a win for the Constitutional rights of everyone in our nation.

As the judge stated, this was a blatant ‘abuse of prosecutorial power’ – one that should disturb all Americans.

Today, a federal judge made clear what we have long known: the Department of Justice was engaged in a vindictive prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The fastest way to end the war in Iran is to stop digging this hole even deeper.

The U.S. government must not stand silent amid the PRC’s continued efforts to silence and detain those exercising their free speech rights.

This is a very shoddy piece of work. It's an incomplete piece of work.

This is a corrupt deal, and in the process the president... got a complete get out of jail free card.

This was absolutely a vindictive prosecution. The judge called it essentially an abuse of power.

This is essentially President Trump negotiating with President Trump through the acting attorney general, who was Trump's former personal lawyer.

I would hope all Republicans, including Republican candidates, should come out strongly against this slush fund which the president has set up for these purposes.

This is a corrupt deal.

I will say, however, it looks like Iran will retain more control over those straits.

The president should have stuck to his campaign pledge of keeping us out of war and focused on bringing down prices.

This is a very shoddy piece of work.

This was absolutely a vindictive prosecution.

We should get rid of this political slush fund altogether.

This war against Iran has been a big blunder from the very start.

This is really about the rights of each and every one of us.

Well, Nancy, this war against Iran has been a big blunder from the very start.

We need to be clear to the American people that we understand their financial and economic pain and their daily struggles and that we're going to do something about it.

This is a corrupt deal. And, in the process, the president, of course, got a complete get-out-of-free card with respect to any taxes that he has due and owing, another corrupt part of this deal.

I think most Republicans are more upset about the fact that this interrupted their effort to pass this reconciliation bill with another $70 billion of taxpayer funds for ICE.

This is really corrupt from the start.