Republicans Suddenly ERUPT In Ballroom Shift To Force Taxpayer Disaster
April 28, 2026
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as posted by the channelRepublicans, including Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson and more, suddenly flip to pushing for taxpayers to foot the bill for Donald Trump's colossal and massively expensive White House ballroom, which Trump has relentlessly promoted as fully donor funded. John Iadarola and Jackson White break it down on The Damage Report.
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Senate Republicans push bill to authorize $400M for White House ballroom
"A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) are pushing a bill to fund the construction of a secure 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House and say the project is essential to national security after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday.
Graham and his allies say the cost of this project would be offset by national park user fees and customs fees, and that the bill would authorize the construction of national security-related infrastructure below the ballroom, including an annex for the Secret Service.
“It’s very difficult to have a bunch of important people in the same place unless it’s really, really secure. The times in which we live are unusual. I’ve been up here for a while now, I’ve never felt the sense of threat that exists today,” said Graham, who was first elected to the House in 1994."
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