A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules, according to the Senate parliamentarian.
Democrats celebrate and say they will stop it again Democrats have seized on the provision, accusing Republicans of dedicating precious federal resources to the ballroom effort instead of focusing on helping Americans with .
Republicans have insisted that private donations will be used to build the ballroom and that the federal dollars are focused just on much-needed security enhancements.parliamentarian“Republicans tried to make taxpayers foot the bill for Trump’s billion-dollar ballroom," Schumer said.
“Senate Democrats fought back — and blew up their first attempt. ” Schumer added that Democrats “will be ready to stop them again” as Republicans say they will revise the bill. The ruling from the Senate parliamentarian is just advisory, but such rulings are rarely if ever ignored when lawmakers put together legislation that can pass with a simple majority. Democrats were challenging the provision as failing to meet the parliamentary standards for inclusion in a filibuster-proof bill.
Republicans are looking to approve a roughly $72 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection for three years after Democrats have blocked the money for months. As part of that package, Republicans included $1 billion for White House security enhancements, part of it connected to Trump's new ballroom.
The Secret Service had requested the money after a man was charged withThe overall budget package is providing another boost of funding for Trump's immigration and deportation agenda, fueling operations through September 2029. It comes on top of ICE and Border Patrol funds Congress provided last year in the big tax breaks bill Trump signed into law.
The parliamentarian kept most of the immigration portion of the legislation intact, though some minor provisions were blocked, including Customs and Border Patrol funds to hire, train and pay Border Patrol agents, among others central to immigration enforcement operations. Republicans said those were only technical fixes. Oregon Sen.
Jeff Merkley, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said Saturday evening that Americans shouldn't spend “a single dime” on Trump's “Louis XIV-style ballroom and throw tens of billions more at two lawless agencies.
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