Ballroom won't be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request

[Eugene]

Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request (Politico)

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 President 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.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/ballroom-security-funding-reconciliation-00930193

[msongs]

1. but it is gonna be paid for by donations and kickbacks nt

[scipan]

2. well goddamn. they must have gotten a lot of calls from constituents or something.

Worried about being reelected.

[Volaris]

6. Or, this is their response to him fucking over Cornyn, and very possibly turning that seat blue.

Apparently, peeps in the RSCC were in Thunes office beyond livid...

[calimary]

3. If he still tries to shove it down our throats anyway,

let’s just make sure the next Dem in the White House gets rid of it and restores the natural vibe that used to be there.

More trees! More grass! More gardens! More greenery! It’s all REALLY restful, renewing, and generally good for the soul. And that sounds like a REALLY good vibe to spread around that whole area.

I just find it frustrating, though, that the opposition has to almost literally be dragged, physically, toward doing the right thing.

[Totally Tunsie]

4. Has his late night/early morning rage tweeting started yet?

How any can he fire off per minute? He might just set a new record today!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. More like a blow to top donors as they'll be pinched to shovel in the money.

That, and/or contractors and crew build and won't be paid.