How Democrats Killed Trump's Taxpayer Funded Ballroom
Trump's taxpayer funded ballroom doesn't have the votes in the House or the Senate to pass, but here is how Senate Democrats killed it in the reconciliation process.
The vast majority of Republicans in the House and Senate didn’t want to vote to fund Trump’s ballroom. Even as a part of reconciliation, Republicans have been unable to come up with enough votes to get Trump his $1 billion in taxpayer money to pay for the ballroom.
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Senate Republicans tried to attach the ballroom funding to their current reconciliation bill, but the language was thrown out by the Senate Parliamentarian due to the strict rules about all funding in reconciliation legislation must be directly related to budgetary matters.
It was announced on Wednesday that Senate Republicans will strip the ballroom funding from the reconciliation bill.
Recently, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse explained how Democrats killed the ballroom funding.
Sen. Whitehouse said:
If you want to know how we blew up the Trump billionaire ballroom in the reconciliation process, let me take you into the parliamentary arguments where we won. In order to get the funding through the reconciliation process, the Republicans had to give reconciliation instructions to all the relevant committees.
Well, I'm the top Democrat on the Environment Public Works Committee. Martin Heinrich is the top Democrat on the Energy Natural Resources Committee. And guess what? The White House is a public building under the jurisdiction of the Environment Public Works Committee, and it's in a national park under the jurisdiction of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) explained the argument that Democrats won with:
