Trump's Billion Dollar Ballroom Will Cost You Your Healthcare! 📱
May 7, 2026
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1:18:04Now PlayingTrump's Billion Dollar Ballroom Will Cost You Your Healthcare! 📱
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as posted by the channelRepublicans 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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