Senate parliamentarian rejects Trump’s ballroom fund in budget bill

The Senate official said the GOP bill needs to be reworked to comply with jurisdictional issues.

A GOP bill seeking $1 billion for the Secret Service to help finance Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is in jeopardy as it faces pushback from a top Senate official.

The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, said Saturday that the budget bill, which aims to fund ICE and Border Patrol alongside $1 billion to help fund the ballroom, needs to be rewritten to account for jurisdictional issues.

The parliamentarian wrote that the bill would be subject to a 60-vote threshold to pass, meaning it can’t move forward with a simple majority, unlike similar bills advanced using budget reconciliation.