A lot of these late-in-the-game actions seem to be done for the sake of being able to say a person did some bad thing, regardless of whether or not it gets dropped past Jan 20th. Tears in the rain and all that.
Oh no don't do that, if we fine him that vast sum of money it might destroy trickle-down economics. And he won't want to rocket the cars and then society would collapse because Lona definitely does all the work all by himself and he won't want to do that if we're mean to him.