众议院司法委员会的最高民主党人周日抨击了补偿盟友的潜在资金唐纳德·特朗普总统称其为“政治贿赂基金”，他说是“非法的”和“违宪的”
“只有国会有权拨款，国会从未投票决定在司法部设立这笔17亿美元的政治贿赂基金，国会永远不会通过，”该委员会的资深成员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)在接受美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)“本周”主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯(George Stephanopoulos)采访时说。
“这只是他的一个发明，但即使国会想这样做，我认为这显然是违反宪法的，”他补充说。
美国广播公司新闻周四报道知情人士透露，特朗普预计将放弃对美国国税局(Internal Revenue Service)提起的100亿美元的诉讼，以换取设立17.76亿美元的基金，用于向声称自己被拜登政府不当瞄准的个人提供和解。
拉斯金说:“我们知道总统想继续设立这些政治贿赂基金。”。“所有这些都在宪法之外。所有这些都超出了国会的支出能力，因此是非法的。是违宪的。”
一个监督赔偿基金的委员会将拥有解决索赔的全部权力，这些索赔可能由近1600名被指控与1月6日袭击美国国会大厦有关的个人以及与特朗普本人有关的实体提出。
拉斯金说，补偿现已被赦免的1月6日暴乱者将违反第十四修正案。
“如果你看看第十四修正案的第四部分，它说联邦政府不能用任何钱来支付暴动或叛乱。所以，就他想给1600名被赦免的暴乱者和叛乱者每人一百万美元而言，我们认为这是违反宪法的金钱使用，”拉斯金说。
拉斯金呼吁国会阻止该基金向前发展。
当被斯特凡诺普洛斯问及民主党人是否也会提起诉讼时，拉斯金说，“毫无疑问，我们会。”
“但是记住，我们是我的文章分支。我们有能力控制支出，所以我们必须维护我们的支出能力来阻止这种情况，”他说。“如果我们的共和党同事尊重宪法和国会的权力，他们会采取行动阻止它。”
Top Judiciary Democrat Raskin blasts possible Trump-IRS settlement
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday blasted thepotential fund to compensate alliesof President Donald Trump, calling it a "political slush fund" that he saidis "illegal" and "unconstitutional."
"Only Congress has the power to appropriate money, and Congress never voted on creating this $1.7 billion political slush fund at the Department of Justice, and Congress would never pass that," said Rep. Jamie Raskin, the committee's ranking member, in an interview with ABC News' "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
"This is just an invention on his part, but even if Congress wanted to do it, I think it's clearly unconstitutional on a number of grounds," he added.
ABC Newsreported Thursdaythat Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of the $1.776 billion fund to be used to give settlements to individuals who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter said.
"We know that the president wants to keep setting up these political slush funds," Raskin said. "All of this is outside of the Constitution. All of it is outside of congressional spending power, and so it is illegal. It is unconstitutional."
A commission overseeing the compensation fund would have total authority to settle claims, which could be brought by the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and entities associated with Trump himself.
Raskin said that compensating the now-pardoned Jan. 6 rioters would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
"If you look at Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment, it says that no money can be spent by the federal government for the purposes of paying for insurrection or rebellion. So, to the extent that he wants to give a million dollars to each of 1,600 pardoned rioters and insurrectionists, we think that that's an unconstitutional use of money," Raskin said.
Raskin called on Congress to stop the fund from moving forward.
Asked by Stephanopoulos whether Democrats would file lawsuits as well, Raskin said, "Undoubtedly, we will."
"But remember, we are the Article I branch. We have the power over spending, and so we have to assert our spending power to block this," he said. "If our Republican colleagues have any respect for the Constitution and the powers of Congress, they will move to block it."
