Fitzpatrick Rejects $1 Billion Secret Service Request for Trump Ballroom

2 articles · Updated · POLITICO · May 12

Brian Fitzpatrick, a key House GOP moderate, said the White House security request is "not happening here," directly opposing $1 billion in new Secret Service funding tied in part to Trump’s ballroom project.
Up to $220 million of the request could flow to the controversial ballroom, while the broader package is a $70 billion party-line bill meant mainly to fund immigration enforcement agencies.
Sean Curran, the Secret Service director, pitched Senate Republicans on Tuesday that only part of the money would go to the ballroom and the rest to other venues frequented by the president, but he met skepticism there as well.
Fitzpatrick’s resistance matters because centrist Republicans could decide the bill’s fate in the narrowly divided House, complicating Trump’s push to get the legislation to his desk by June 1.

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