Senate goes on break amid GOP plan to curtail Trump $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' and $1 billion ballroom funding
Senate goes on break amid GOP plan to curtail Trump $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' and $1 billion ballroom funding
Senate goes on break amid GOP plan to curtail Trump 'anti-weaponization' and ballroom funding
President Trump’s new "anti-weaponization fund" and ballroom project may both get pushback from Senate Republicans in the yet-to-be-released updated version of the bill.
Republicans are punting on plans to advance a $70 billion immigration bill, retreating after meeting with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to address concerns about the administration's anti-weaponization fund.
The move pushes the process until at least after their weeklong Memorial Day recess after the House and Senate were sent home Thursday afternoon.
Earlier, Senate Republicans were poised to try to rein in two of Donald Trump's controversial spending wishes: $1 billion for the East Wing expansion and nearly $1.8 billion for an "Anti-Weaponization Fund," two people familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.
Blanche canceled pre-scheduled travel to go up to Capitol Hill to attempt to quell the growing Republican outrage over the "anti-weaponization fund," which would be used to compensate allies who say they have suffered injustices at the hand of the Biden administration. But Blanche's meeting seems to have completely backfired.
There was yelling in the room, multiple sources told ABC News, with some senators -- even some vocal Trump supporters -- telling Blanche they believed they'd lose the Senate majority over the fund.