{"id":22584,"date":"2026-05-12T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/key-house-gop-moderate-dismisses-ballroom-funding-request\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:32:29","slug":"key-house-gop-moderate-dismisses-ballroom-funding-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/key-house-gop-moderate-dismisses-ballroom-funding-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Key House GOP moderate dismisses ballroom funding request"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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&#8217;s controversial ballroom project.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/254452\" data-person-id=\"254452\">Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot happening here,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on whether he supports the idea, he responded directly, \u201cNo.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/secret-service-briefing-fails-to-quiet-gop-ballroom-funding-concerns-00917317\" target=\"_blank\">met a skeptical reception nonetheless<\/a>. Curran and other White House officials are expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/12\/congress\/secret-service-funding-lobbying-00916447\" target=\"_blank\">continue making the case<\/a> in the coming days, saying the money is needed to secure the ballroom project and other venues frequented by the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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-22584","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\/22584","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=22584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}