{"id":2603547,"date":"2026-05-16T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-dance-around-the-truth-of-trumps-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:23:04","slug":"dems-dance-around-the-truth-of-trumps-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-dance-around-the-truth-of-trumps-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Dance Around the Truth of Trump&#8217;s Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-dance-around-the-truth-of-trumps-ballroom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2603547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cReconciliation\u201d is typically about restoring harmony, but in Congress it\u2019s being used for a high-stakes budget fight.The article argues that Senate Republicans have advanced a $72 billion reconciliation draft tied to reopening Homeland Security funding, while stripping immigration enforcement agencies\u2019 ICE\/Border Patrol (CBP) from the broader compromise in order to win Democratic buy-in-then relying on reconciliation to ensure funding for ICE and CBP later.<\/p>\n<p>It says Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, plan to oppose the bill and portray it as sending money to \u201crogue\u201d immigration officers without reforms. The article also highlights a major messaging dispute over a reported $1 billion White House request associated wiht expanding and hardening the White House property after recent threats and an assassination attempt. It claims Schumer criticizes it as \u201cjust for the ballroom,\u201d while Republicans respond that the money would actually fund Secret Service training, facility and security upgrades, screening and access improvements, and other event protection\/security measures. The piece further argues that only $220 million would involve \u201cballroom\u201d security-related features and that the ballroom itself is privately financed.<\/p>\n<p>it notes that multiple GOP senators say they wont oversight, more detailed facts, and assurances about costs-while emphasizing urgency due to reconciliation deadlines and concern about avoiding another government shutdown related to ICE\/CBP funding.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a funny word, \u201creconciliation.\u201d In any other situation, it would mean restoring peace and harmony.<\/p>\n<p>In Congress, the process means anything but. Yet, here we are, back on the precipice of another budget battle \u2014 the second after the president\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill last year. And if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has anything to do with it, this showdown will be as bruising as ever.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief hiatus from Washington, Senate Republicans dropped their much-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5863729-senate-reconciliation-bill-ice-border-patrol\/\">reconciliation draft<\/a> last week, a $72 billion solution to Democrats\u2019 months-long shutdown of Homeland Security. While the two sides finally agreed to fund DHS, its immigration arms \u2014 ICE and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol (CBP) \u2014 were stripped from the deal to get Schumer\u2019s party on board. The tradeoff for reopening and paying employees of TSA, the Coast Guard, cybersecurity offices, FEMA, and Secret Service was pivoting to a bill that Republicans knew they\u2019d have to pass without Democrats. Reconciliation \u2014 the strict, tedious, budgetary tool that only requires a simple majority \u2014 is the only way to make sure ICE and CBP have the money they need to keep functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Although the national furor over ICE has died down since Tom Homan took over the president\u2019s deportation operations, Democrats still refuse to send a single cent to the agencies enforcing America\u2019s immigration laws. In fact, Schumer doubled down on his party\u2019s objections of late, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/schumer-promises-painful-fight-in-congress-for-gop-reconciliation-bill\/\">vowing<\/a> to throw every possible wrench into the reconciliation debate. In a letter to his caucus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-dems-stopping-biden-from-making-deal-with-gop-senate-on-smaller-covid-stimulus\/\" title=\"McConnell: Dems stopping Biden from making deal with GOP Senate on smaller COVID stimulus\">minority leader claimed<\/a> the bill sends billions of dollars to \u201crogue\u201d immigration officers without any reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me make one thing very clear: Senate Democrats will not let them jam through this bill without making them answer for their endless cost hikes, healthcare cuts and every dollar diverted from American families to Trump\u2019s priorities,\u201d he wrote, adding that they would use \u201cevery tool we have\u201d to gum up the process.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Democrats\u2019 most effective messaging takes aim at the president\u2019s White House Ballroom project, which has been expanded to harden the property against security threats after the third assassination attempt against Trump last month. \u201cAt a time when Americans can\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">make ends meet<\/a>, Republicans say \u2018Let them eat cake\u2019 \u2014 and then hand Trump a billion dollars to build a ballroom to serve it in,\u201d Schumer ranted. \u201cAmericans do not need a ballroom. They need relief. They want Congress and their president to address the growing cost crisis bearing down on families across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not one to let the facts get in the way of a good soundbite, Schumer ignores the reality that the $1 billion is not, in fact, just for the ballroom but for Secret Service training, facility upgrades, event protection, and additional screening capabilities. As the Judiciary Committee\u2019s GOP majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/schumer-promises-painful-fight-in-congress-for-gop-reconciliation-bill\/\">fired back<\/a>, \u201cSerious legislating requires basic reading. The bill funds Secret Service enhancements, not ballroom construction.\u201d Unfortunately, the media, always eager to amplify the Left\u2019s messaging, continues to leave out the key detail that the reconciliation bill \u201cexplicitly prohibits\u201d taxpayer dollars from financing the ballroom itself.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Secret Service Director Sean Curran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/schumer-promises-painful-fight-in-congress-for-gop-reconciliation-bill\/\">reiterated that<\/a> in a letter last week, noting that the new request was for \u201cabove and below ground requirements\u201d at the East Wing site. \u201cImportantly, as the legislative text makes explicit, none of these funds will be used to support non-security improvements at the White House,\u201d the duo underscored.<\/p>\n<p>Only $220 million of it would be for the ballroom \u2014 and every penny of it would be for security upgrades. As the president promised when he embarked on the rebuild, \u201cThe ballroom is being financed privately,\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) stressed, \u201cbut the security associated with it represents about 20% of what this request was.\u201d According to The Washington Times, the full $1 billion request <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/may\/12\/secret-service-says-trump-ballroom-would-get-220-million-not-1\/\">breaks down this way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$220 million for security features of the East Wing project.<\/p>\n<p>$180 million for a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> visitor screening facility.<\/p>\n<p>$175 million for training <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/secret-service\/\">Secret Service<\/a> agents \u201cin the modern threat environment,\u201d including updating the agency\u2019s training facilities.<\/p>\n<p>$175 million to improve security for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/secret-service\/\">Secret Service<\/a> protectees, including at \u201cfrequently visited venues facing heightened risk due to their public visibility and static nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>$150 million for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/secret-service\/\">Secret Service<\/a> Special Operations Division to invest in state-of-the-art technologies to counter drones, airspace incursions, unmanned systems and biological threats.<\/p>\n<p>$100 million for increased security at high-profile national events that require significant planning, specialized training and extra assets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not exactly \u201cchoosing Trump\u2019s chandelier over your child care,\u201d as Schumer so carelessly suggests. But that doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t room to cut, GOP senators say. After the Republicans\u2019 weekly lunch, where this was discussed, several conservatives emphasized the need to keep costs down. \u201cI want the president to be safe. I don\u2019t care who the president is,\u201d Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) told the Times. \u201cBut our job is oversight.\u201d Others, like Senator John Curtis (R-Utah) wanted to see more data, \u201cif it\u2019s really for extra security.\u201d And Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) highlighted the need to offset the $1 billion elsewhere in the bill.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Tuesday\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BufI1jkxZCc\">Washington Watch<\/a>,\u201d \u201c[I]t\u2019s been interesting just to be able to watch this process. \u2026 Obviously, the president has had a third assassination attempt on him in the past two years. So he is attentive to what\u2019s happening with Secret Service. And Secret Service came back and said, \u2018We\u2019d like $1 billion.\u2019 And it\u2019s been portrayed by Chuck Schumer as $1 billion for the ballroom. It\u2019s not,\u201d he declared. \u201c[These are] training facilities. [These are] additional access points in and out of the White House. [These are] additional electronic security measures around the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That said, Lankford continued, a lot of Republicans have questions. Pointing to the president\u2019s June 1 deadline for reconciliation, the Oklahoman admitted, \u201cThe clock is our enemy at this point. [There are] a lot of requests for additional information. We even met with the director of [the] Secret Service earlier today saying, \u2018Hey, you\u2019re giving us a breakdown, but we\u2019ve got big headings. We need more information about what\u2019s in the subheadings on all these different aspects on it.\u2019 So we\u2019re trying to get all that additional paperwork in from them. At the same time,\u201d he noted, \u201cwe\u2019re trying to be able to work through funding ICE and CBP for the next three years. We don\u2019t want to get into a government shutdown again over ICE and CBP.\u201d It\u2019s a monumental task.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the GOP would stick together on this, Lankford half-laughed. \u201cDo all the Republicans stick together on anything? Mom and apple pie [are things] we have disagreements on at times. \u2026 So I think the vast majority do. I think there [are] a lot of questions still in this new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-reasons-bidens-latest-billion-dollar-request-is-a-hard-pill-to-swallow-for-gop\/\" title=\"GOP finds Biden&#039;s ...ion-dollar ... hard to accept for three reasons.\">billion-dollar request<\/a>. Again, it\u2019s being portrayed as just the ballroom. It\u2019s not just the ballroom.\u201d But, he added, \u201cJust to be able to walk through [the details is important]. 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