Trump is falling apart, and the people around him are racing to cash in
Just before 5:00 in the morning, after an all-night vote-a-rama, the Senate approved nearly $70 billion in new funding for ICE and Border Patrol, along with something no other American has ever received. It is the protection shielding Trump, his family, and his businesses from IRS audits. Democrats brought amendment after amendment to strip the carve-out from the bill. Republicans beat back nearly every one. The closest vote, an effort to block the $1.8 billion payout fund tied to Trump’s settlement, failed by a single vote, 49 to 50. Americans are expected to pay every tax dollar they owe and are always subject to audit. Some reports say the president may owe roughly $100 million in back taxes. One set of rules for them. Another for everyone else.
And the corruption runs deeper than one bill. A watchdog report revealed that more than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump’s White House ballroom have won new or expanded federal contracts worth over $50 billion in the past six months. Sixteen of those 27 donors have watched their federal enforcement actions get dropped, scaled back, or suspended. They are not funding a ballroom out of generosity. They are buying favor. Meanwhile, the House voted 213 to 210 to cut $141 million in fruit and vegetable benefits from WIC, the program feeding 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, and pregnant mothers, while grocery prices keep climbing. They voted to take produce from babies while the president’s donors collected billions.
And the speed of it all tells us something important. The man at the center is failing. He fell asleep on camera at his own coal event. He needed help getting down a single stair in Wisconsin. And the people around him are not slowing down. They are speeding up, racing to seize as much money and power as they can while he can still sign what they put in front of him, because they know the midterms are closing in. This is a smash and grab in the window they have left. They are building it in a hurry because they know it is not built to last. Americans are waking up. And time is no longer on their side.
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This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 6-5-2026.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-vote-a-rama-ice-funding-reconciliation/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-reconciliation-bill-immigration-dhs/
Outrageous! You who voted to cut $31 million from WIC funding for fruits & vegetables-and your families-should go without fruits & vegetables as long as WIC funds remain cut! How will you sleep???
Thank you Heather!!