{"id":775,"date":"2026-05-11T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:40:52","slug":"senate-democrats-to-fight-republicans-1bn-funding-plan-for-trumps-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats to fight Republicans\u2019 $1bn funding plan for Trump\u2019s ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer accuses GOP of \u2018asking working families to pay the price while Trump pockets the perks\u2019 in letter<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/trump-china-iran-trade-warsh-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chuck-schumer\">Chuck Schumer<\/a>, the US Senate\u2019s top Democrat, has vowed to oppose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/05\/senate-immigration-package-1bn-trump-ballroom\">Republican plan<\/a> to spend $1bn on security improvements for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/15\/trump-white-house-ballroom-renderings\">ballroom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is seeking to build on the White House\u2019s former East Wing.<\/p>\n<p>The money is set to be included in a measure Republicans plan to pass that would allocate about $70bn to the federal agencies leading Trump\u2019s mass deportation campaign, with the intention of keeping them operational through the remainder of the president\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/11\/senate-democrats-white-house-ballroom-funding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer accuses GOP of \u2018asking working families to pay the price while Trump pockets the perks\u2019 in letter US politics live \u2013 latest updates Chuck Schumer, the US Senate\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=775\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}