Senate GOP drops $1 billion for White House ballroom from budget package
Senate Republicans agreed among themselves before the Memorial Day recess to pull the money for President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom out of the reconciliation package but they made the decision official by releasing the updated text from the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee’s title will be combined with legislation marked up last month by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in a package that senators will vote to begin debating shortly after 2:15 p.m. “The Secure America Act will ensure Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding is no longer held hostage by Democrats’ radical leftist agenda.
- ▪Senate Republicans agreed among themselves before the Memorial Day recess to pull the money for President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom out of the reconciliation package but they made the decision official by releasing the updated tex
- ▪The Judiciary Committee’s title will be combined with legislation marked up last month by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in a package that senators will vote to begin debating shortly after 2:15 p.m.
- ▪“The Secure America Act will ensure Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding is no longer held hostage by Democrats’ radical leftist agenda.
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Senate Senate GOP drops $1 billion for White House ballroom from budget package Comments: by Alexander Bolton - 06/03/26 1:13 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Alexander Bolton - 06/03/26 1:13 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Senate Republicans have stripped language providing up to $1 billion for security upgrades to the proposed White House ballroom from a revised budget reconciliation bill unveiled on Wednesday. Senate Republicans agreed among themselves before the Memorial Day recess to pull the money for President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom out of the reconciliation package but they made the decision official by releasing the updated text from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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