Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request
***Multiple Republican senators objected to sending taxpayer dollars to the president’s East Wing revamp***
In a blow to the White House, Senate Republicans will remove a $1 billion Secret Service funding request that would help Donald Trump’s ballroom project from their immigration enforcement funding bill amid internal objections.
“We were told that the ballroom money is out,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters after a GOP lunch meeting Wednesday, adding he’d “like to read the text.”
The decision to omit the security funding came after twin blows: Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled over the weekend that the provision didn’t comply with the strict rules governing what Republicans can put in their filibuster-skirting bill because it funded activities outside of the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction.
In a blow to the White House, Senate Republicans will remove a $1 billion Secret Service funding request that would help Donald Trump’s ballroom project from their immigration enforcement funding bill amid internal objections.
“We were told that the ballroom money is out,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters after a GOP lunch meeting Wednesday, adding he’d “like to read the text.”
The decision to omit the security funding came after twin blows: Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled over the weekend that the provision didn’t comply with the strict rules governing what Republicans can put in their filibuster-skirting bill because it funded activities outside of the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction.