Trump's Ballroom Billion On Life Support In Senate

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Senate Republicans appear to be on the verge of dropping funds for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom from an ICE funding bill they're planning to pass by the end of the week.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) declined to say Wednesday if he'd dropped the ballroom funding proposal from the bill, even as other senators said they expected it to go away.

"We're still working through the the final provisions of what it will look like," Thune told reporters. "There's a couple of couple of snags — snafus, if you will — that we've run into."

The Senate parliamentarian said Republicans' original version of the ballroom funding couldn't remain in the bill under the special budget process Republicans are using to bypass Democrats in the Senate.

Republicans can rewrite the proposal to satisfy the parliamentarian, but are apparently having trouble writing it in a way that satisfies the 50 senators they need to pass the bill. Multiple Republican senators have said they have a problem with funding Trump's gilded banquet hall at a time of broad economic dissatisfaction.

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"We were told that the ballroom money is out," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters Wednesday, cautioning that he hadn't seen final text of the bill.

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