{"id":16145,"date":"2026-05-21T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=16145"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:14:00","slug":"us-republican-senator-says-trump-ballroom-funding-removed-from-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=16145","title":{"rendered":"US Republican senator says Trump ballroom funding removed from spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Republican Senator John Kennedy on Wednesday said there was insufficient support in \u200bthe Senate to spend $1 billion on a planned White House \u200cballroom and related security measures, and that the proposal would not be included in a $72 billion immigration enforcement bill.<br>Speaking to reporters after leaving a meeting of Republican \u200bsenators, Kennedy, of Louisiana, said: \u201cWe were told that, and again, I \u200bhaven&#8217;t looked at the text, but we&#8217;re told that the \u2060ballroom money is out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260521091305.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260521091305.png 695w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20260521091305-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters that \u200bthere were &#8220;a couple snags&#8221; that his 53 Republicans were trying to iron \u200bout. &#8220;I think there are issues related to the East Wing modernization project,&#8221; he said.<br>President Donald Trump has had the East Wing of the White House demolished, to be \u200breplaced by a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that he says could seat up to \u200b1,000 people.<br>Trump originally said the project would involve no federal funding. But that has \u200cchanged \u2060several times, culminating in congressional Republicans seeking $1 billion in taxpayer money that they argued would provide security enhancements for the ballroom and other Secret Service projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune said one of the unresolved issues was whether around $780 million \u200bin additional Secret \u200bService spending would \u2060be maintained even if the ballroom was not going forward.<br>While the controversy of spending federal money on what \u200bDemocrats call a &#8220;gilded vanity project&#8221; for Trump has been \u200bthe focus \u2060of attention in the past few weeks, the $72 billion for Department of Homeland Security immigrant deportations has also been roiling Congress as the midterm election \u2060campaigns \u200bget underway.<br>Democrats argue that the DHS is \u200balready well funded and have demanded new restrictions on the department&#8217;s law enforcement operations, which Republicans \u200bhave rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Republican Senator John Kennedy on Wednesday said there was insufficient support in \u200bthe Senate to spend $1 billion on a planned White House \u200cballroom and related security measures, and that the proposal would not be included in a $72 billion immigration enforcement bill.Speaking to reporters after leaving a meeting of Republican \u200bsenators, Kennedy, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4151,1948,2220],"class_list":["post-16145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-ballroom","tag-kennedy","tag-republican"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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