Senate GOP drops $1 billion for White House ballroom from budget package
Senate Republicans dropped the money after the chamber’s rule-keeper said it could trigger a filibuster and derail the broader immigration package.
- On Wednesday, Senate Republicans released a revised immigration bill that officially stripped up to $1 billion in security funding for President Donald Trump's proposed East Wing ballroom project.
- Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled last month that the ballroom funding violated the Byrd Rule, which bars extraneous provisions in reconciliation bills, requiring 60 votes to pass.
- GOP leaders also abandoned a proposed $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" critics derided as a "slush fund," while several Republican senators opposed the ballroom funding fearing it appeared out of touch before midterms.
- White House officials downplayed the removal, attributing the change to parliamentary rules rather than political pressure, as the revised bill proceeds toward securing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
- Construction on the ballroom remains underway, though it is unclear how the lack of federal appropriation will affect the project; Trump previously claimed the ballroom would be funded by private donations, including his own.
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