Trump-hunting special counsel Jack Smith looks to have his lavish spending curtailed if Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee have their way Thursday.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) is pushing an amendment to the DOJ budget that would prohibit Smith “purloining” funding provided to other law enforcement agencies in his zealous investigations of Donald Trump.
Hagerty has discovered that Smith has been siphoning off more than $11 million a year which had been allocated to the FBI and US Marshals Service by the Appropriations Committee for “real law enforcement.”
“The abuse by Jack Smith and the DOJ of American taxpayer funds to pursue their political opponents in lieu of the criminals which the funds were appropriated to pursue has to stop,” says Hagerty, a Trump ally who wants the special counsel’s office to reimburse as much as $30 million which he says it has taken from the FBI and Marshals’ budgets since 2022.