Repubs Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom

Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Senate Republicans are seeking $1 billion of taxpayer money to help fund "security adjustments and upgrades" linked to Donald Trump's White House ballroom project. The proposal was outlined in a reconciliation package focusing on federal law enforcement and border security spending, which was released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday.

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Happy 250th, US of A ...
8647
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86 that effing disgusting monument to one man's well-enabled slide into terminal dementia

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-05 10:44 AM

How much $$$ for a fabric-upholstered sofa with a customized magazine pocket that can hold a gold plated, engraved 7.65 mm Walther PPK? Make sure to include those too- you never know when they might be needed.

#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-05 10:55 AM

What the eff is wrong with these people?

8647.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-05 10:56 AM

Sooooo...it's not only not going to be privately funded as promised, but it will now cost 2.5x the original price if (big IF) there are no cost overruns?

And I'm betting much of this will go to contracts awarded without bids to shell companies that are mere days old that are associated with companies one Trump spawn or another has a stake in?

$1 billion will buy a ton of tacky decorations and gold spray paint from Home Depot.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-05 11:04 AM

Sooooo...it's not only not going to be privately funded as promised, but it will now cost 2.5x the original price if (big IF) there are no cost overruns?
And I'm betting much of this will go to contracts awarded without bids to shell companies that are mere days old that are associated with companies one Trump spawn or another has a stake in?
$1 billion will buy a ton of tacky decorations and gold spray paint from Home Depot.

#4 | Posted by jpw

It was originally $200 million.

So it's 5X the original price tag now.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-05-05 11:10 AM

Ja wohl, MAGAJeebus, at yer command: one yuge Hitlerian Welthauptstadt Germania-ish architectural monstrosity coming right up, mein ... como se dice? ... ah, yessss, sirrrr!

P.S. General Steiner has, alas, been delayed.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-05 11:30 AM

The extra money is for the another, far more secure INNER ballroom that will be located inside the proposed OUTER ballroom.

Trump got the idea of nesting ballrooms when his buddy Putin presented him with a gift of Russian Matryoshka dolls. Trump looked at the dolls and immediately got a ----- for the smaller, inner dolls. But quickly he realized, as he was attempting to rape the smallest one, that he could have a golden ballroom inside of a golden ballroom which would sit inside of another golden ballroom, thus improving security for him and his inner circle of sycophants and pedophiles.

#7 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-05 11:45 AM

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