{"id":22582,"date":"2026-05-12T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-budget-chair-wants-more-information-about-ballroom-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:49:07","slug":"house-budget-chair-wants-more-information-about-ballroom-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-budget-chair-wants-more-information-about-ballroom-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"House Budget chair wants more information about ballroom funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington said in an interview Tuesday he would \u201creserve judgment\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it\u2019s narrowly tailored to getting ICE and CBP funded and restoring the safety and security of the American people \u2014 that was our intent from the beginning,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, but he failed to convince<\/a> everyone present that approving the full amount was a wise idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington said in an interview Tuesday he would \u201creserve judgment\u201d 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. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}