Miss Lindsey is treating a shutdown because the House won't let him sue to collect $500K

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., unloaded his frustrations with the latest iteration of a government funding package backed by President Donald Trump and laid out a stark warning to the top House Republican and the White House in the process.

Graham is one of the few remaining holdouts blocking the Senate from moving on to a government funding package brokered by Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as lawmakers race to beat the government funding deadline at midnight on Friday.

The top Trump ally’s frustrations with the funding package have little to do with the president or the deal struck with Schumer. Much of his ire is directed at a provision tucked in by the House last week that would repeal a law that allows senators whose phone records were subpoenaed by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for up to $500,000 per infraction.

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And Graham was not happy that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., let the repeal slip through.

"You could have called me about the $500,000," Graham said. "I'd be glad to work with you. You jammed me, Speaker Johnson. I won't forget this. I got a lot of good friends in the House. If you think I'm going to give up on this, you really don't know me."

Graham has been a vocal proponent of that law, which was slipped into the last funding patch by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., with a green light from Schumer.

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