{"id":41,"date":"2026-05-26T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:14:22","slug":"republican-rep-urges-maga-to-stand-up-to-trump-over-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Republican Rep Urges MAGA to Stand Up to Trump Over Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A GOP congressman has hit back at Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom and $1.8 billion slush fund as he urged MAGA colleagues to stand up to the president in the interest of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=39\">MAGA Melts Down as Republicans Defy Trump\u2019s Rigging Plot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One week after Trump insulted his Fox News fiancee, Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick has come out swinging as he moves to torpedo the president\u2019s $1.8 billion \u201canti weaponization\u201d fund with the help of Democrats.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got half of this country living paycheck to paycheck,\u201d Fitzpatrick, who is engaged to Fox\u2019s White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, told CNBC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMany people in my community are stressing over the kitchen table this morning, figuring out how to make their weekly budget work. We shouldn\u2019t be talking about ballrooms; we shouldn\u2019t be talking about DOJ slush funds. That\u2019s not what our country wants us to be talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent who has served in the House of Representatives since 2017, is one of the few GOP members willing to speak up against Trump or his policies.<\/p>\n<p>But this has raised the ire of the president, who hit out at the congressman by ranting at Heinrich and other reporters during a press gaggle last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, her husband votes against me all the time. Can you imagine?\u201d Trump said, not realizing the pair had not yet tied the knot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s with him. You better ask what\u2019s with him. Her husband, she\u2019s married to a certain congressman. He likes voting against Trump. You know what happens with that? Doesn\u2019t work out well. I don\u2019t know why he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on <i>Squawk Box<\/i> on Tuesday, Fitzpatrick made no apologies, standing up for his constituents and arguing that his GOP colleagues should do the same rather than be beholden to \u201cany person or party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=37\">Trump Cooks Up New Loyalty Test for Federal Workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always pressure in the job, but it\u2019s not going to deter me from doing my job, which is to represent the people that I represent in Bucks and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re my bosses. I don\u2019t report to any person or any party in Washington, D.C. And by the way, that\u2019s a perspective that every member of Congress should be taking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick\u2019s pushback comes amid broader concerns about Trump\u2019s ballroom and so-called anti-weaponization fund. The fund allows people to seek compensation if they believe they were unfairly prosecuted by successive administrations, including rioters who assaulted police during the January 6 Capitol attack. <\/p>\n<p>This has made it particularly controversial, with MAGA grifters now lining up for a taxpayer-funded cut, while Capitol Police have filed lawsuits against it.<\/p>\n<p>Several Republicans have also hit back: North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis called the scheme \u201cstupid on stilts\u201d; former GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described it as \u201cutterly stupid, morally wrong\u201d; and Texas Senator Ted Cruz revealed how GOP Senators erupted last week as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tried to defend it during a closed-door meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFiery does not begin to cut it,\u201d Cruz said Friday on his podcast. \u201cMy guess is there\u2019re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were p*****.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, meanwhile, has joined forces with Democrat Rep. Tom Suozzi to introduce a bill designed to block the slush fund, which was announced last week as part of a backroom deal that also gave Trump some immunity from certain IRS audits. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of our system of checks and balances is to hold each other accountable, and the president can\u2019t just go spending $1.8 billion on a fund that will reward people that say that they\u2019ve been aggrieved by the government, including people that came to the Capitol on January 6,\u201d Suozzi told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=35\">The Perfect Amount of Sleep Revealed\u2014It\u2019s Bad News for Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOP congressman has hit back at Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom and $1.8 billion slush fund as he urged MAGA colleagues to stand up to the president in the interest of Americans. Read more MAGA Melts Down as Republicans Defy Trump\u2019s Rigging Plot One week after Trump insulted his Fox News fiancee, Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Republican Rep Urges MAGA to Stand Up to Trump Over Ballroom - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=41\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republican Rep Urges MAGA to Stand Up to Trump Over Ballroom - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A GOP congressman has hit back at Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom and $1.8 billion slush fund as he urged MAGA colleagues to stand up to the president in the interest of Americans. 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