Senate blocks funding for White House ballroom in GOP spending bill

The Senate parliamentarian ruled that hundreds of millions proposed for security measures tied to the White House East Wing modernization and Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom cannot be included in the current GOP spending package under reconciliation rules, forcing lawmakers to remove or rework the ballroom-related provisions. Democrats hailed the decision as a taxpayer protection, while Republicans plan to redraft and resubmit the bill, arguing the funds would cover security rather than the ballroom itself; the dispute follows earlier rulings that parts of the bill violated reconciliation protocols and jurisdictional limits.