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Dems Plot Revenge After Trump’s ‘Outrageous $1 Billion Betrayal’
May 6, 2026
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Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesSenate Democrats are reportedly keen to force Republicans to vote on plans to inject a further 1 billion into President Donald Trump’s massively over-budget White House ballroom project.On Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, slipped the proposal to direct 1 billion to the Secret Service for “security adjustments and upgrades,” including at the White House for Trump’s ballroom project, into a broader reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through fiscal 2029.The move sparked uproar from Democrats, including Democrat Sen.
Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, who slammed it as “an outrageous betrayal of hardworking families who want lower costs, not a golden ballroom.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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