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It's revenge time | Ousted GOP senator teases revolt against Trump: 'You ain't seen nothing yet' (www.rawstory.com)

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Outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), defeated in May's GOP primary by a Trump-endorsed opponent, made clear Friday he plans to use his "newfound political freedom" to extract concessions from the White House – or blow up its plans in the process, Punchbowl News reported Monday.

At the top of Cornyn’s list is officially shuttering the Trump administration’s anti-weaponization fund, a taxpayer-funded $1.7 billion fund dedicated to awarding payouts to those who’ve claimed to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden Administration’s Justice Department. Cornyn suggested that President Donald Trump’s nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche could be in jeopardy if the White House doesn’t fold on the fund.

“They’re not enthusiastic about it, but if they want to get [Blanche] out of the committee, I think they realize they need to talk to us,” Cornyn said, according to Punchbowl News.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ll believe it when I see it, but an ousted senator doesn’t seem like he holds many cards.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

He holds several interesting cards though. He is still a republican in a senate where republicans have a majority - which means if the republicans want to do something unpopular he can sponsor and take credit for it: since he is out anyway he doesn't have to worry about reelection and so can be the face of it. In turn that means he can get things he wants done in the same bill.

It remains to be seen how this plays out of course.