Prohibit paying.

RNC resolution to prohibit paying Trump's legal bills is ‘dead’

It won't come up when the committee meets on Friday.

NATALIE ALLISON

The Republican National Committee is meeting on Friday in Houston to elect a new chair. But what the 168 members won’t be voting on, after all, is a pair of resolutions that would have put some daylight between Donald Trump and the committee.

Henry Barbour, the committee member from Mississippi who has been critical of the former president, drafted resolutions late last month that would have prohibited the party from covering Trump’s legal bills, as well as preventing the RNC and its leadership from supporting Trump as the nominee until he secures 1,215 delegates.

While the attorney fee resolution got some traction, neither draft garnered enough support from members by the deadline last week in order to be considered for a vote on Friday, according to a person with knowledge of the resolutions.

"It's dead," Barbour said of the legal fee resolution and relayed that it will not come to a vote on Friday. Barbour said he received co-sponsors from only eight of the 10 necessary states to bring the resolution to a vote.

Trump’s campaign advisers have said he will not tap the RNC for help with his legal bills, as Trump did previously, though some Trump critics say they aren’t buying it. And Trump is expected to notch the necessary delegates to become the party’s presumptive nominee in the next week or two, regardless of if former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley — Trump's sole remaining challenger — continues her bid.