SAT . BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin just brutally slammed Lindsey Graham for voting himself a $500,000 taxpayer jackpot.

If you thought Congress couldn’t get more corrupt, buckle up: Senate Republicans just tried to turn the U.S. Capitol into their own personal ATM — and Lindsey Graham is first in line to cash out.

In a breathtaking act of political self-dealing that would make even the most brazen kleptocrat blush, Senate Republicans quietly slipped a provision into the government funding bill giving themselves the right to sue the Justice Department for at least $500,000 each if their phone records were obtained during Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation.

That’s right: the same Republicans who spent years screaming “law and order” just wrote themselves a half-million-dollar reward because investigators looked at their call logs following a violent attempted coup.

And guess who’s sprinting to the bank?

Lindsey Graham — the man who helped vote for the Patriot Act, defended NSA mass surveillance, and cheered on government spying when it was your phone records on the line.

Now that it’s his phone records caught up in the Jan. 6 dragnet, suddenly Lindsey is shrieking about tyranny and demanding a big, beautiful taxpayer-funded check.

“I’m going to sue… and if you think I’m going to settle this thing for a million dollars? No,” Graham bragged to reporters. “I want to make it so painful no one ever does this again.”

Painful? Honey, the only people feeling pain here are taxpayers, who would be forced to pay MAGA senators for consequences they brought upon themselves when they got entangled in Trump’s coup attempt.

And thankfully, Congressman Jamie Raskin was having NONE of it.

After Graham’s tantrum hit the news, Raskin delivered what might be the sharpest congressional clapback of 2025:

“Sir, you were treated like every other American who gets caught up in a massive criminal event or conspiracy. Do you now want to ban all grand jury subpoenas of phone records or just vote yourself a million-dollar taxpayer jackpot because you got one and you think Senators should have special privileges over everyone else?”

Absolutely brutal. And absolutely correct.

While Graham was fantasizing about his taxpayer-funded payout, the House — including outraged Republicans — erupted over the Senate’s corrupt stunt. Speaker Mike Johnson admitted it was “a really bad look” and announced the House will vote next week to repeal the scheme entirely.

Even hard-right Rep. Greg Steube couldn’t stomach the grift, saying he “could not in good conscience” vote for such a naked cash-grab.

Let’s be clear about what happened here:

• Senators secretly added a provision letting themselves personally profit from a legitimate criminal investigation.

• They made it retroactive so they could file lawsuits immediately.

• They wrote it in a way that only senators could benefit — not House members, not regular Americans, just themselves.

• And Lindsey Graham is proudly boasting he’ll be the first to sue.

This is what happens when a political party decides accountability is for peasants.

This is what happens when MAGA lawmakers who helped foment an insurrection think the real crime is that investigators checked their call logs.

This is what happens when the GOP stops pretending and openly governs like a cartel protecting its own.

Jamie Raskin was right: nothing about this is normal, democratic, or ethical.

It is corruption — and the House is now scrambling to slam the brakes before Senate Republicans walk off with millions in taxpayer cash.

Stay tuned. Because this fight isn’t over — and Lindsey’s lawsuit jackpot might be the most short-lived grift in congressional history.

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