Raskin files peti­tion to kill Trump’s $1.8 bil­lion law­fare fund

Raskin will need six Repub­li­cans to reach the nec­es­sary 218 sig­na­tures to force a vote on the leg­is­la­tion, but he said he has not yet received any com­mit­ments from Repub­li­cans. The leg­isla­tive pro­ce­dure bypass­es the com­mit­tee process and forces leg­is­la­tion direct­ly to a floor vote if a sim­ple major­i­ty signs on in support.“I just filed papers for a dis­charge peti­tion to block the $1.776 bil­lion polit­i­cal slush fund that Todd Blanche and Don­ald Trump want to cre­ate for Don­ald Trump and for the Proud Boys and Oath Keep­ers and oth­er con­vict­ed crim­i­nals, and it would also bl …