{"id":82941,"date":"2026-05-21T06:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82941"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:34:55","slug":"proposal-for-white-house-ballroom-may-be-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/proposal-for-white-house-ballroom-may-be-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal For White House Ballroom May Be In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ballroom-construction-east-wing-275f8034ad3817ca78aa085d1c202c32\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">President Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom<\/a><\/span> on Thursday after members of their own party questioned the timing and the lack of detail in the Secret Service request.\u00a0Pressured by the White House, Republicans have tried to add the money to a roughly\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/pronto\/be294d74e3b197d469f43b902e707580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">$70 billion bill<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to<\/span> restore funding to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. But the security proposal met with backlash from some GOP lawmakers who are questioning the cost and how the taxpayer dollars would be used.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s text has not yet been released, but the Senate hopes to pass it this week and send it to the House before leaving for a weeklong Memorial Day recess.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779345295\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Proposal For White House Ballroom May Be In Trouble\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82942,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941\/revisions\/82942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}