Capitol calculus: GOP split over White House ballroom funding as ruling looms

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s forthcoming decision on whether a $1 billion Secret Service funding provision for the White House ballroom can stay in a budget-reconciliation bill is driving GOP strategy, with members weighing reductions and more detail due to political optics and Byrd-rule constraints. House Republicans, led by Mike Johnson, say they’ll push changes to the Senate’s housing bill despite White House and Senate pushback, while cross‑chamber talks continue on immigration enforcement, homeland provisions, and a crypto bill ahead of a June 1 deadline, as Trump presses for faster movement.