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BTT #17 Snippet | From January 6 Pardons to Federal Payouts to a 100% Clawback Tax
Every political cycle has a money story buried inside the headline story, and January 6 is no exception. The arrests came first. Then the trials. Then the pardons. Then the framing — "weaponization" of the Justice Department against the defendants, which is the language that now wraps every effort to compensate those defendants from federal funds. And then the counter-move: legislation proposing a 100% tax on any federal payments that flow to people convicted in the Capitol breach, designed not to raise revenue but to neutralize the payments at the moment they hit the recipient's account.
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