🚨 BREAKING NEWS on GOP REVOLT against Trump

Added: 2026-06-10

[00:00:03]We begin the day with a major breaking news update about the ongoing Senate Republican rebellion that Donald Trump now faces on a variety of issues, including the billion-dollar ballroom, his recent appointment of a wildly unqualified sycophant and minion to a critical national intelligence role, and of course the $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund that Trump created to financially compensate his MAGA allies, including violent January 6th insurrectionists. The breaking news update is this. We now have a mixed result. On the one hand, Republicans cowardly capitulated to Trump, but on the other hand, they joined all Democrats to push back in another area.

[00:00:41]But before we unpack all of that, if you end up liking this video and you want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe, and alert bells before you go.

[00:00:49]All right, folks, we have a lot to talk about. There's bad news and good news.

[00:00:52]Let's start with the good news. Deal to renew surveillance law falters in the Senate amid revolt over Polte. Democrats who had been expected to supply the votes necessary to advance it bulked after Donald Trump named Bill Polte to head the intelligence apparatus. So, as we discussed in a recent video, Bill Polte is the guy who basically runs Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. He's the the housing finance director at the White House, and his role in the second Trump administration has effectively been to accuse people Donald Trump doesn't like of mortgage fraud. He's responsible for the failed prosecutions of five Trump critics, accusing them wildly of mortgage fraud. Okay, that's what he is there to do.

[00:01:32]And Donald Trump stupidly, I mean, of all the Trump personnel decisions, this one is the most wild, and I want you to think about that because we have RFK Jr. and Pete Hegseth in the federal government. This is dumber still.

[00:01:43]Donald Trump named Bill Polte to be the new acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.

[00:01:49]And the director of national intelligence oversees the entire intelligence community. It's a cabinet-level role. It's incredibly important and incredibly powerful. Bill Polte has zero experience in intelligence in the military. So he is literally the least qualified person in a critical Trump role. Less qualified than RFK Jr.'s Health and Human Services Secretary and less qualified than Pete Hoekstra to be Defense Secretary. This guy is worse than they are.

[00:02:14]And as a consequence of this, certainly every Democrat rebelled, but so too did a handful of Republicans.

[00:02:20]With just 1 week left until a key government surveillance authority was set to expire, a deal to renew it faltered in the Senate early Friday after Democrats refused to back it because of concerns over Donald Trump's recent appointment to Bill Polte to oversee the national intelligence agencies.

[00:02:35]A block of Republicans who have long harbored concerns about that spy program joined Democrats to block consideration of a bill that would extend it for 3 years, a warrantless wiretapping law known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Services Surveillance Act.

[00:02:48]This vote was 52 to 47, well short of the 60 that would have been needed to move ahead.

[00:02:53]While a group of Democrats had been working with Republicans on the measure and had been expected to deliver the votes necessary to move ahead with the extension, their anger over Polte's naming prompted an almost unanimous retreat from the emerging deal. Every Democrat except for John Fetterman voted against advancing the bill. They were joined by seven right-wing Republicans, Josh Hawley, John Kennedy, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Eric Schmitt, Rick Scott, and Tommy Tuberville. The defeat left uncertain the future of Section 702. So, this is the one area where a handful of Republicans joined every Democrat and successfully pushed back on Trump. Okay, that's the good news. Now let's get to the bad news.

[00:03:31]When it came to the $1.8 million taxpayer-funded slush fund, there were multiple Republicans who said, "Listen, this bill this this this slush fund is terrible. Uh we hate it.

[00:03:41]We're going to do everything in our power to kill it legislatively." And then after 18 grueling hours, they waved the white flag of surrender and surrendered their votes to the Republican majority to let the reconciliation bill pass without legislation mandating that the $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund be killed. The Wall Street Journal reports Senate passes $70 billion border enforcement bill without killing Trump fund. GOP lawmakers had raised concerns that the anti-weaponization fund would be used to pay Trump's allies in January 6 rioters.

[00:04:12]Republican senators stopped short of using their political leverage to kill Donald Trump's $1.8 billion fund approving a critical immigration enforcement bill without adding added language raining in the controversial program.

[00:04:23]The Senate's vote the sessions votes allowed Republican senators in competitive election fights to register their objections to the fund without derailing a bill that's a priority for Trump and his party.

[00:04:33]Lawmakers of both parties objected to the Trump fund over concerns that taxpayer money would be used to compensate Trump's allies and could reward people who had assaulted police officers who defended the capital uh on January 6, 2021.

[00:04:46]After weeks of rankling and contentious meeting between uh acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Republican senators, Blanche said this week that the administration was killing the fund.

[00:04:54]But Trump didn't echo that commitment and Democrats and many Republicans said they wanted the end of the fund written into law fearing that it could be revived later. Precisely because Trump of course is a pathological liar as is Todd Blanche, we have absolutely no reason to take them at their word.

[00:05:09]Senator Thom Tillis initially said he wouldn't support the immigration enforcement legislation unless it included language to kill the fund. But later he made clear that protecting politically vulnerable colleagues was his priority ahead of a midterm election. He and Bill Cassidy, a fellow outspoken opponent of the fund, ultimately voted for the bill. "But I'm taking my cue from my colleagues that are in cycle this year." said Tillis who's retiring at the end of Congress after falling out with Trump. "But whatever suits their purposes."

[00:05:34]Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he wasn't surprised by the that the effort to kill the fund had sputtered citing Trump's power over the GOP. "But there's only one rule here. In the end he gets everything he wants. But the idea that this is permanently dead is ridiculous and indeed it is. Democrats have refused to fund ICE or Border Patrol without an overhaul of immigration enforcement policies and so then they had to turn to budget reconciliation where you could pass it with a simple majority and then this is where the $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund became an issue. In an initial vote, three Republicans, Collins, Sullivan, and Husted, voted for a Democratic motion to send the entire immigration enforcement bill back to committee with instructions to add language that would eliminate the slush fund. All three are in competitive midterm races, contests in which they will need votes from Trump supporters but also independents and swing voters who want to see them push back against Trump. Other GOP opponents of the fund who aren't on this fall's ballot, including Tillis, Cassidy, Murkowski, John Curtis of Utah, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, voted at that stage to keep the immigration bill moving.

[00:06:32]Right? So, they apparently object to the bill but not really, not enough to actually supply the votes to use their leverage.

[00:06:38]Curtis said he hadn't liked the fund since the beginning but was quote somewhat placated with it being nearly dead. But he also said he was hoping for a chance to make sure the fund was quote dead dead.

[00:06:47]And of course, that would mean actually using your votes accordingly and you chose not to.

[00:06:53]Um Senate Republican leaders had hoped statements and congressional testimony earlier this week from Blanche disavowing the fund would be sufficient.

[00:06:59]Trump, however, declined to confirm that he considered the fund dead and he also praised the fund. Blanche also left in place an order that extends tax audits that ends tax audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses and he also refused to put it into writing that the fund was dead.

[00:07:14]So, um Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the fund quote won't die until we permanently ban it by law, not by language, not by verbal promises, which can have just evaporate, but by law and he's very much correct. Couple of other things I just want to point out, um again, let's see, in another win for Trump, Republicans ultimately approved the bill, this is from CNN, without killing the $1.8 billion slush fund, but Republican senators still endured hours of painful political votes in which they repeatedly rejected efforts to formally kill the fund. Remember, when we talked about this, I said that it was entirely possible that Republicans would bend the knee as they often do, but the Democrats needed to use the leverage they had to force Republicans to go on the record.

[00:07:51]Well, now we have them on the record. We now have Susan Collins of Maine, for example, voting in favor of legislation without, you know, using her votes to kill this anti-weaponization fund. So, as she heads into a contentious midterm election against Garrett Platter in Maine, Garrett Platter can point out and say, "Hey, listen.

[00:08:12]She wants to use your taxpayer dollars to help Trump pay out January 6th insurrections, people who beat the out of cops. And she can say all she wants, 'Oh, I'm very concerned. I'm very concerned.' But the truth is, she had the power to help end it. She chose not to use that power, which means she supports it, which means she gets all the blame, and you should vote for me."

[00:08:27]And other Democratic challengers to Republican incumbents can say the same damn thing. They didn't use their votes.

[00:08:33]They had the leverage to kill it, which means their words, their assurances, their concerns are irrelevant.

[00:08:39]Now, the Democrats can ruthlessly politically punish the Republicans who chose not to use the power and leverage at their disposal to stop Trump from using your taxpayer dollars, your loved one's taxpayer dollars, your community's taxpayer dollars to enrich his MAGA allies, including people who beat the out of cops.

[00:08:57]Multiple Republicans voted in favor of formally blocking the fund, citing concern within the party over it. In the end, however, the wider funding measure passed with only Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voting against the the bill without any sort of language to do it.

[00:09:12]So, she's the only one who said, "Actually, no, I'm not going to vote for this unless there is language in this bill that will formally kill it."

[00:09:20]So.

[00:09:21]Um In a dramatic overstart a start to the overnight voting session, the GOP-led Senate voted down an effort by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to shut down the GEO DOJ fund, but only after hours of leadership arm-twisting. So, right out the gate, they had to expend a lot of political capital, time, effort, and energy to kill Chuck Schumer's initial amendment to destroy this fund.

[00:09:43]So, again, this is something that Democrats can hit them with. When push comes to shove, they can and moan all they want. They can say they're really concerned, but they use their power, political capital, and leverage to get people to fall in line behind Trump.

[00:09:54]They support this fund. They support this slush fund. That's what this means.

[00:09:59]Um eight Republicans voted in favor of a different amendment that would prohibit payments from the fund to go to January 6th rioters convicting of convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers, but the amendment failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass. So, every Democrat voted for it.

[00:10:13]And eight Republicans joined as well, but they needed more. So, again, the Republican Party wants Trump to be able to not only have this slush fund, but to be able to use it to pay people who beat the out of cops. Again, it's right there on the record. We have the votes.

[00:10:26]We don't have to read the tea leaves. It is a matter of fact.

[00:10:29]So, some other things to note. Again, Chuck Schumer, uh the Senate minority leader said, "Senate Republicans just passed a rotten bill that makes their priorities painfully clear. More money for Trump, more power for Trump, and nothing to lower costs for working families."

[00:10:42]Republicans refused to permanently outlaw Trump's $2 billion slush fund leaving taxpayers to rely on nothing more than a promise from Trump's personal fixer. That's not accountability. That's a permission slip.

[00:10:53]True.

[00:10:55]He also says, "50 to 49 Republicans by one vote chose to keep Trump's insurrection a slush fund dream alive.

[00:11:00]They After they fumbled around for hours, we needed just one more Republican to muster the courage to end Trump's taxpayer handout to cop beaters and felons. Per usual, they were spineless."

[00:11:10]Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator, said, "There were multiple votes tonight to make the $1.8 billion cop beater ill fund illegal, and Republicans blocked every single one, paving the way to Trump for Trump to resuscitate his slush fund." Correct. Democratic Senator Jackie Rosen said, "Almost every single Senate Republican is now on the record supporting $2 billion of your tax dollars going towards Trump's illegal slush fund. While you continue to be squeezed by rising costs, they want to give your hard-earned money to Trump's buddies. Despicable.

[00:11:37]Very true.

[00:11:38]And again, it's all over the place right now. Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic Senator, said, "In the dead of night, Senate Republicans voted to protect Trump's corruption. $1.8 billion mega slush fund for criminals, $70 for rogue ICE agents brutalizing our communities, nothing to lower costs for families, all for Trump." It's true.

[00:11:54]So, there you have it, folks. Again, a bit of a mixed bag. Right now, they again pushed back on the nomination of Bill Pulte to DNI, but this could change next week. They could roll over next week. The bigger issue for me is that they ultimately bent the knee, despite the pressure, despite their public stated misgivings, on the reconciliation bill. They refused to use their votes and leverage to kill this illegal slush fund. And again, Democrats need to use every communicative and political tool at their disposal to make clear that the Republican Party supports Donald Trump taking your taxpayer dollars and giving them to people who beat the out of cops as they tried to keep him in power for a second unlawful term, or rather an unlawful second term. That's what the Republican Party has become. Whatever their personal misgivings are at the end of the day, they lack the courage to actually stand up to Trump when it counts the most. And we should call them out for it. You should punish them by voting them all out. There is no room in the United States Congress for a Republican. There just isn't, because they don't have the balls, the spine, or the courage to do what's right. So, vote them all out and replace them with a Democrat. In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments.