NEWS WEEK
Donald Trump Jr. has slammed the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill over funding for a new FBI headquarters.
The bill, which would fund the U.S. government throughout 2023, was released Tuesday by senior congressional members in both parties. But it has been met with criticism from conservatives, who raised concerns about its price tag. If the bill does not pass in the evenly divided Senate, a government shutdown could begin as soon as this weekend.
Some conservatives are also opposing the bill because it includes plans to construct a new FBI headquarters in either Maryland or Virginia. In August, the FBI became a political target for the GOP after FBI agents seized classified documents at Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Conservatives accused the agency of political bias against the former president and other conservatives.
Additionally, conservatives have criticized the FBI after the recent release of internal Twitter documents, known as “the Twitter Files,” about the agency’s interactions with the social media platform. The documents allege that Twitter suppressed a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and that the FBI “discredited factual information about Hunter Biden‘s foreign business dealings” in communications with Twitter executives…
