A key moderate Republican lawmaker said Tuesday he would not support a White House security funding request that could pour as much as $220 million into President Donald Trump’s controversial ballroom project.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) dismissed the prospect that the House would approve $1 billion in new Secret Service spending as part of a pending party-line bill that otherwise funds immigration enforcement agencies.

“Not happening here,” he said in an interview.

Pressed on whether he supports the idea, he responded directly, “No.”

Fitzpatrick’s vote and those of like-minded centrists will be crucial to getting the overall $70 billion package through the House, given the slim GOP majority.

Secret Service Director Sean Curran lobbied Senate Republicans for the funding Tuesday, explaining that only a subset of the funding would potentially be used on the ballroom, but met a skeptical reception nonetheless. Curran and other White House officials are expected to continue making the case in the coming days, saying the money is needed to secure the ballroom project and other venues frequented by the president.

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington said in an interview Tuesday he would “reserve judgment” on the White House’s request for Republicans to include $1 billion in security funding in their party-line package until he saw legislative text, but cautioned he wanted to see an “itemized” list of what the money would be used for.

“I hope it’s narrowly tailored to getting ICE and CBP funded and restoring the safety and security of the American people — that was our intent from the beginning,” Arrington, a Texas Republican, said of the bill GOP lawmakers want to pass through the filibuster-skirting reconciliation process to fund the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement activities.

His comments come as GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned about the administration’s desire to wedge $1 billion into the reconciliation bill, which can be used to fund the security features of a new White House ballroom and other “frequented venues” by the president.

Secret Service Director Sean Curran met with Senate Republicans at a closed-door lunch Tuesday to walk through the funding request, providing a handout breaking down the funding, but he failed to convince everyone present that approving the full amount was a wise idea.

President Donald Trump has yet to name a nominee for his next attorney general, but congressional Democrats are making clear they intend to make things difficult for Todd Blanche, the former deputy attorney general now leading the Justice Department in an acting capacity.

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, in a new letter is accusing Blanche of leveraging his “office to improperly shower government cash on Donald Trump’s political operatives and sycophants.”

Specifically, Raskin is alleging that Blanche — who is running the agency after Pam Bondi’s ouster — ordered the FBI to pay large sums to FBI agents accused of misconduct.

“The record definitively shows that the agents were not disciplined for making protected disclosures to Congress or for the imaginary offense of being a Republican,” Raskin wrote. “They were disciplined for reckless misuse of classified information or serious episodes of professional misconduct that endangered national security.”

For example, Raskin writes that the DOJ approved payments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for someone who previously had his security clearance revoked after he was involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and misrepresented his actions to the FBI.

Judiciary Democrats did not provide supporting documentation for the sources of some of their claims. But Raskin argued the settlements underscore “broader pattern of the Trump Administration using the public fisc as a slush fund to reward its allies.”

He asked for a host of materials relevant to the Democratic investigation into the issue, and the request suggests that Democrats — should they retake the House in the midterms — could make the settlements a key part of their oversight activities in the next Congress.

A DOJ spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.

Raskin also alleged in his letter that staffers in the office of Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley were involved in talks around the settlements. The Iowa Republican’s office has previously said he played a role in the meditation of FBI “whistleblowers” settlements.

“This seven-page screed is a disgusting and defamatory attempt to smear legitimate whistleblowers while protecting their Biden administration retaliators,” said Clare Slattery, a spokesperson for Grassley. “Senator Grassley stands by his efforts to defend and protect all whistleblowers, no matter which administration they blow the whistle on, just as he has done for decades.”