{"id":73127,"date":"2026-05-06T06:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/gop-proposes-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-secure-trump-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:54:51","slug":"gop-proposes-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-secure-trump-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/gop-proposes-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-secure-trump-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Proposes $1B in Taxpayer Dollars to Secure Trump Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican lawmakers are adding $1 billion in public funds to a new spending bill to support President Donald Trump\u2019s White House Ballroom, a project that was first billed as a privately funded endeavor. The White House says \u201cPrivate donations are paying for the ballroom,\u201d but that the bill, \u201cgives much needed security and hardening and training money\u201d to the Secret Service. NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports for TODAY.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican lawmakers are adding $1 billion in public funds to a new spending bill to support President Donald Trump\u2019s White House Ballroom, a project that was first billed as a privately funded endeavor. The White House says \u201cPrivate donations are paying for the ballroom,\u201d but that the bill, \u201cgives much needed security and hardening &#8230; <a title=\"GOP Proposes $1B in Taxpayer Dollars to Secure Trump Ballroom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/gop-proposes-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-secure-trump-ballroom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about GOP Proposes $1B in Taxpayer Dollars to Secure Trump Ballroom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}