Already in March, Republicans called all her outrage when the Democrats have tried to link the money to the protection of the voters, the aircraft air quality standards and incentives for clean energy to the recent conference crown aid package . Now, four months later try the same Republicans, embarrassed to be stapled to nearly $1.8 billion for a new F.B.I. Based in the piece follow-up legislation. The first package of $2.2 Katherine crown relief was extravagant, but widely considered to be necessary, including an unprecedented bailout of small businesses, a lifeline for airline companies and generous unemployment benefits, which actually increased many workers having lost their jobs, their saw net income, the second round is similar along the lines drawing, although some conservatives stores in the Senate are signs balking in a rare Despite the majority leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell show. A sense that matters in Washington. Subscribe to daily direct current, short newsletter. But the inclusion of $1.75 billion dollars for the new F.B.I. The central government expenditure – buried in 108 short words on pages 11 and 12 of the Grants Committee offer piece – republican scale and burns the help bottom when it was included in the rescue draft plan released on Monday. At first it seemed McConnell was aware that the bill contained the new home for the first investigators in the nation. When asked by reporters for the first time, McConnell refused. When corrected, the dry Kentuckian said that only his audience for answers from the White House to seek. “They will ask them why they are included, he insisted,” he said. The timing could not for a Republican Party in danger clunkier be their majority in the Senate re-election as president Donald Trump grows more unstable lose. While all GOP lawmakers – with the exception of Mitt Romney – found a way to justify the Trump behavior that the land brought into the house and acquitted in the Senate in January for his impeachment, now postponed. A number of vulnerable senators have begun to distance themselves from Trump, fell as his approval ratings with the arrival of the pandemic. The Ministry of Justice is now well applied in 2018 than a year in its internal investigation, because Trump scrapped plans to make the case apart F.B.I. to move the headquarters from the current center on the outskirts, amid speculation that the current frame could be ripe for redevelopment of a hotel. Lost on no one is the fact that Trump hotel right in DC, across the street from its current location is – and may prefer federal maintain and unrivaled as neighbors. So daring was the attempt, a replacement for the F.B.I. dilapidated squeezing H.Q. in the bill, the president of the powerful Appropriations rugged Commission that only the reason why the charges were contained to respond. “Good question,” Senator Richard Shelby told reporters on Monday at the Capitol. Not to mention that it was his commission staff has received the laconic spend provision of the proposal. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, overseeing the F.B.I. He was equally ready for the start of the new headquarters of the proposed legislation. “It makes no sense to me,” said Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday. With a caucus broken like this, it’s no wonder McConnell with a hard look around. There is little optimism that someone plans for a new F.B.I. the work will be adopted according to the basic laws now on Capitol Hill. But why Trump asked, Senate Republicans have at least pretend as if you consider them – and to take the lumps that come with looking like the hypocrites, at the request of the add-ons list. A version of this article first in the short DC, TIME Newsletter issued the policy. Subscribe to stories like this sent to your mailbox for every day. image is copyright Valery Sharifulin-TASS / Getty Images
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