Trump's Billion Dollar Ballroom Will Cost You Your Healthcare!

Republicans say they're fiscal hawks. Then they slip $1 BILLION for Trump's

vanity ballroom into Chuck Grassley's border bill — and tell you Medicaid has

to be cut to make the math work. Cliff Schecter on the gaslight nobody in

Washington will say out loud.

The same caucus that screams about the deficit every single time anyone asks

for healthcare just signed off on a billion-dollar handout for a 90,000-square-

foot Versailles cosplay project — complete with marble, gilt, chandeliers, an

underground bomb shelter, and a private medical suite for the king. The

ballroom that was supposed to cost $200 million is now a billion dollars on

the public dime. And every dollar of it has to come from somewhere — and we

all know exactly where Republicans look when they need to "find savings."

Spoiler: it's your insulin. It's your kid's pediatrician. It's your mom's

nursing home.

🔹 How the Trump ballroom price went from $200M → $400M → $1B in nine months

🔹 The $1B "security" carveout buried in Chuck Grassley's immigration bill

🔹 What $1B actually buys in healthcare — Medicaid coverage, ER visits, insulin,

nursing home beds, rural hospital subsidies

🔹 Why "no taxpayer money" was always a lie — the receipts

🔹 The deficit-hawk gaslight: scream about debt for healthcare, sign blank

checks for Trump's vanity

🔹 The 90,000-square-foot, marble-and-gold Versailles fantasy your tax dollars

are now subsidizing — including the underground bomb shelter

🔹 What we do about it. What you do this week.

This is the predator class going after your healthcare so the king can have

his ballroom. Cliff names them.

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▶ NBC News: Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to secure

Trump ballroom

▶ Washington Post: GOP offers $1B for White House security, sparking dispute

over ballroom

▶ CNN: The White House ballroom — taxpayer money could go toward security

related to the project

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