Capitol calculus: GOP split over White House ballroom funding as ruling looms
TL;DR
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.
- Capitol agenda: Nervous GOP weighs options on ballroom Politico
- Republicans push back against Trump’s ballroom funding request MS NOW
- Senate GOP balks at $1B in security for White House ballroom, despite Secret Service pitch The Hill
- Fact-check: Are Republicans seeking $1B in taxpayer funds for Trump's White House ballroom? WRAL
- $200 million? $400 million? $1 billion? Breaking down the White House ballroom project's price tag as Trump reveals its scheduled opening. Yahoo
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