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Republicans may abandon $1 billion security bid for Trump’s ballroom complex
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Senate Republicans may exclude Donald Trump’s lavish White House ballroom complex from the Department of Homeland Security funding bill after members questioned the timing and lack of detail of the Secret Service’s $1 billion request.
Facing pressure from the Trump administration, Republicans tried to include money in a nearly $70 billion bill to restore funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.
But the security proposal faced pushback from some GOP lawmakers who questioned the cost and how taxpayer dollars would be used, the AP reported. Although the text of the bill has not yet been released, the Senate hopes to pass it this week and send it to the House before it goes on a week-long Memorial Day recess.
The dispute emerged as Senate majority leader John Thune acknowledged Wednesday that there were “ongoing voting issues” as leaders tried to gauge Republican support, as well as “ongoing parliamentary issues” as they tried to figure out what would be allowed in the bill under chamber rules.
“There is always a consequence to appointing United States senators,” Thune said. “[The president] He obviously has his favorites and people he wants to support, and that’s his prerogative. “But what we have to deal with here is moving the agenda, and frankly that can get a little more complicated.”
Republican senator John Kennedy said Wednesday that without the security money, the bill “will be back to square one” because “the votes are not there.”
Sen. Thom Tillis, meanwhile, said the effort to include the security package in the bill was a “bad idea” because he thought there wasn’t enough support to pass the package even if the cost was reduced. axios reported Tillis recently said he would not support the bill if it was taken up this week.
Democrats have criticized Republicans for trying to fund Trump’s ballroom while voters are concerned about underlying economic issues.
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President Donald Trump’s plan to build a triumphal arch in Washington is getting a second opinion from a federal agency that recommended changes before approving the concept last month.
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The U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, whose members are appointed by Trump, approved the arch’s concept at its monthly meeting in April.
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Republicans may abandon $1 billion security bid for Trump’s ballroom complex
Hello, welcome to the live blog of US politics.
Senate Republicans may exclude Donald Trump’s lavish White House ballroom complex from the Department of Homeland Security funding bill after members questioned the timing and lack of detail of the Secret Service’s $1 billion request.
Facing pressure from the Trump administration, Republicans tried to include money in a nearly $70 billion bill to restore funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.
But the security proposal faced pushback from some GOP lawmakers who questioned the cost and how taxpayer dollars would be used, the AP reported. Although the text of the bill has not yet been released, the Senate hopes to pass it this week and send it to the House before it goes on a week-long Memorial Day recess.
The dispute emerged as Senate majority leader John Thune acknowledged Wednesday that there were “ongoing voting issues” as leaders tried to gauge Republican support, as well as “ongoing parliamentary issues” as they tried to figure out what would be allowed in the bill under chamber rules.
“There is always a consequence to appointing United States senators,” Thune said. “[The president] He obviously has his favorites and people he wants to support, and that’s his prerogative. “But what we have to deal with here is moving the agenda, and frankly that can get a little more complicated.”
Republican senator John Kennedy said Wednesday that without the security money, the bill “will be back to square one” because “the votes are not there.”
Sen. Thom Tillis, meanwhile, said the effort to include the security package in the bill was a “bad idea” because he thought there wasn’t enough support to pass the package even if the cost was reduced. axios reported Tillis recently said he would not support the bill if it was taken up this week.
Democrats have criticized Republicans for trying to fund Trump’s ballroom while voters are concerned about underlying economic issues.
In other developments:
-
The USA issued a federal criminal complaint against him Raúl CastroCuba’s former president is potentially paving the way for a US military raid to capture him.
-
A lawsuit has been filed against two police officers who were attacked by rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 riot Donald Trump It plans to create a “fight against arms” fund worth $1.776 billion.
-
Brian FitzpatrickCarried by a Republican congressman from a Philadelphia-area district Kamala Harris In 2024, he vowed Wednesday to “try to kill” the $1.776 billion slush fund created by Donald TrumpThe compensation awarded to the Justice Department this week could be used to compensate insurgents who tried to keep Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election.
-
Republican senator Bill Cassidy He condemned two of Trump’s passion projects: $1 billion in taxpayer funding for the White House ballroom, which the president can’t stop talking about, and a $1.776 billion slush fund he plans to use to reward supporters who stormed the Capitol to try to keep him in office despite losing the 2020 election.
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A former federal prosecutor in Florida denied accusations Wednesday that he illegally emailed himself a copy of an unreleased special counsel report into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.
