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Senate parliamentarian rules against trump using public money for the Epstein ballroom in budget 05/18/26(Mon)21:00:22 No. 1515455
Senate parliamentarian rules against trump using public money for the Epstein ballroom in budget 05/18/26(Mon)21:00:22 No. 1515455
Senate parliamentarian rules against trump using public money for the Epstein ballroom in budget Anonymous
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5882011-senate-parliamentarian-rej ects-trump-white-house-ballroom-fun ding/
The Senate parliamentarian late Saturday ruled against a $1 billion provision intended to fund President Trump’s White House ballroom in the budget reconciliation package.
According to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who serves as the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, the guidance states that “a project as complex and large in scale as Trump’s proposed ballroom necessarily involves the coordination of many government agencies which span the jurisdiction of many Senate committees,” adding that the funding provision is outside the scope of the Judiciary panel.
Earlier this month, the Senate Judiciary Committee — as well as the upper chamber’s Homeland Security Committee — included funding for the new complex in a budget reconciliation bill for federal immigration enforcement.
According to Merkley, Elizabeth MacDonough, the nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian, said the ballroom funds violated the Byrd Rule — a strict Senate provision that prevents nonbudgetary, “extraneous” provisions from being passed through the budget reconciliation process.
“The Parliamentarian’s advice is based on whether a provision is appropriate for reconciliation and conforms to the limitations of the Byrd Rule; it is not a judgement on the relative merits of a particular policy,” the Saturday statement from Merkley’s office reads, adding that any vote on ballroom funding would be subject to a 60-vote threshold.
Amid the setback for the White House, Ryan Wrasse, who serves as the communications director for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), said the plan is to “Redraft. Refine. Resubmit.”
“None of this is abnormal during a Byrd process,” Wrasse posted to the social platform Twitter on Saturday evening.
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>>1515455
>Ryan Wrasse, who serves as the communications director for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), said the plan is to “Redraft. Refine. Resubmit.”
Sure. We're close enough to midterms now that voters will remember Republicans, who have allowed two government shutdowns and the SAFE Act to completely stall out, going out of their way to give Trump a billion in taxpayer dollars for his ballroom while gas is over 4.50 a gallon
That should definitely work in their favor at the polls come November
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>>1515488
He's right, y'know? Donald Trump has had more assassination attempts, that we know of, than any other president in the history of this country. Maybe if you animals would stop trying to kill him all the time...
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>>1515487
You mean his latest staged attempt? That trump intentionally weakened security for? And was the only one who wasn't startled and still managed to fall flat on his face leaving? And all his shills on social media started screaming to build the Epstein ballroom before any info was published?
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>>1515487
The existing security proved to be perfectly sufficient. That guy didn't even get to the same floor as Trump, let alone the same room.
GOD that shit was staged as fuck. The fact that the bot army immediately went in lockstep to say that it justified the fuckass ballroom is proof enough.
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>>1515495
OR have you considered the possibility that anti-gun democrats are just shit at using firearms?
Naaaah! That can't be it. It has to be an inside job. There's no way the people who get their gun knowledge from video games wouldn't know what the fuck they're doing. It was all rigged by Orange Man.
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>>1515494
This. The WHCA might move the event to the Washington convention center for better security, but they are not at all keen on moving it to the White House. Trump and other presidents have refused the invitation before. Whata you gonna do?
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>>1515525
Who bombs Teslas because government spending is being cut?
And preemptively let me just address
>Schrodinger's DOGE
>DOGE isn't cutting spending
>DOGE is cutting spending so I need to bomb Tesla's over it.
And of course
>Schrodinger's Liggeral
>I'm angry enough to bomb Teslas over spending being cut
>Now I'm furious over government spending (but I'm really don't care, but you should)
I'm tired of piggy liggerals. Go die.
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>>1515513
I do, because it's a very simple request and dems have to fight him on even this. It's not like he's asking to give everyone free healthcare or absolve all student debt. It's one simple building and they have to fight him over this.
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>>1515544
>they need a place to safely dance like fags
I'm a Republican and a fag.
I'm a masculine sort of guy that likes other masculine sort of guys.
Women are so needy and whiny, and require a lot of maintenance in the relationship.
Me and my fellow Republican bum buddies just go out and dance on the floor and come home and have some great sex and grab some beer& pizza and see each other next week.
Couple of times a year we go out deer hunting then have some great group sex in the lodge
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>>1515615
No. Only the first guy got anywhere close. Every would-be assassin since got caught well in advance. No, he was not “almost sniped,” he wasn’t even on the golf course. The naruto runner didn’t even get to the same floor as him. Trump’s security is ALREADY WORKING.
Don’t pretend this is anything but naked corruption. This administration’s already overflowing with it.
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>>1515617
>Don’t pretend this is anything but naked corruption. This administration’s already overflowing with it.
Miss me with this bullshit. Biden's admin was overflowing with corruption over Burisma and nobody gave a fuck. Trump wants to build a ballroom? WOAAAHHH!!! HE CAN'T DO THAT!!!
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>>1515622
>Even the most absurd Biden fantasies don’t hold a candle to the actually real corruption around Trump.
Yeah let me know when Trump withholds half a billion dollars of aid to a country that needs it unless they fire their top prosecutor looking into corruption for a company that just happens to have Trump's son on their board of directors, making millions of dollars for the family that we'll never know the full amount of because Trump gave his son a blanket pardon after he got busted for breaking gun laws while there's pictures of him doing cocaine and fucking hookers.
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>>1515640
>https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/politics/2024/12/16/alexander -smirnov-guilty-plea-lying-bribes-b idens-burisma
>alexander smirnov
so are you also named something comically russian? or are you one of the outsourced shills