of misappropriating taxpayer money

February 6, 2026

The representative Jamie Raskin, ranking member on the House judiciary

committee, and the representative Robert Garcia, ranking member of the

oversight committee, sent a letter to the president on Thursday condemning

his plan to use a confidential administrative process to direct treasury funds

into his own pocket.

“Your plan to have your obedient underlings at the Department of Justice

instruct the US Treasury to pay you, personally, hundreds of millions of

dollars – especially at a time when most Americans are struggling to pay rent,

put food on the table, and afford health care – is an outrageous and shocking

attempt to shake down the American people,” the lawmakers wrote.

The letter also comes as Democracy Forward, a leading legal advocacy group,

filed a public records request on Wednesday seeking documents related to

Trump’s claims for restitution over those same earlier Department of Justice

cases against him.