Senate GOP Wants $1,000,000,000 For White House Fence, Ballroom Bunker

Senate Republicans have proposed giving the U.S. Secret Service up to $1 billion for “security adjustments and upgrades” relating to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the text of a reconciliation bill late Monday which notes the proposed $1 billion in funding would be used for “enhancements” by the Secret Service related to “the East Wing Modernization Project,” which includes “above-ground and below-ground security elements.” This amount is on top of the nearly $3.3 billion the Secret Service had already been allocated under the fiscal 2026 Department of Homeland Security funding bill signed into law on Thursday, Politico reported.

However, none of the funds made available can be used for “non-security elements” of the White House ballroom project, according to the reconciliation bill.

“The White House applauds Congress’s latest proposal in its reconciliation package which includes additional funding for security infrastructure upgrades in relation to the long overdue East Wing Modernization Project,” White House Spokesman Davis Ingle told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a Tuesday statement. “Congress has rightly recognized the need for these funds.”

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