Folks?
Donald IS taking YOUR MONEY to build HIS addition to YOUR Nation’S President’s Office and BALLROOM in HIS IMAGE….
The New York City Real Estate Guy, acting as President . told ya his buddies would pay for his ‘vision’.?…
Turns out THAT is NOT going on….
Typical Rich guy?
Use someone else’s money …..
No worry….
Donald’s got Immunity, eh?
Man STILL has his ‘Gangster’…..
The Republican Congress and Tax payers get ‘Rolled AGAIN’…..
The Trump administration’s budget office has redirected $352 million that was intended in part for Secret Service training and recruitment to what it described as security measures at the White House, a government database shows.
The White House and the Office of Management and Budget did not specify the purpose of the unusually large shift in response to questions on Wednesday. But a person familiar with the Secret Service budget, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly, told The Washington Post the funding was to help pay for a new White House East Wing that includes a large ballroom.
Asked about the shift and its purpose, a White House spokesman issued a statement stressing the necessity of security enhancements for the East Wing project. “The East Wing Modernization Project is inextricably tied to the security of the President, the White House grounds and the certain security infrastructure assets,” spokesman Davis R. Ingle wrote in a statement.
The Secret Service did not respond to emailed questions.
The transfer of Secret Service funds — equal to more than 10 percent of the agency’s annual budget in recent years — comes amid revelations that President Donald Trump’s controversial ballroom project will rely more significantly on taxpayer money than the administration has publicly acknowledged.
Trump has claimed repeatedly that the project will cost $400 million and has generally said it will be funded entirely by private donors. But this week, The Post reported that the contractor overseeing the work told the White House in March that the expected cost was $600 million, with more than half coming from taxpayers.
The March budget estimates obtained by The Post show that $155 million for the project was expected to come from the Secret Service. Most of the rest of the public funding was projected to come from the White House Military Office….
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The redirected money, included in the Republican spending package dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last July, was intended to bolster the Secret Service after two attempts on the president’s life — the first at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the second at his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course.
The law provided the Secret Service with $1.17 billion and specified that the money was meant to provide for “personnel, training facilities, programming, and technology” as well as “performance, retention, and signing bonuses” for agency personnel….
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Neither the bill nor Grassley’s office made any mention of the White House’s East Wing. Grassley’s office did not immediately respond on Wednesday to questions about whether he supports use of the funds for the East Wing.
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