This is actually funny, given the upcoming midterms, because most people don’t care and don’t even realize this isn’t really an issue. The Democrats are struggling to win a battle, any battle and just lost the gerrymandering attempt in Virginia.
The one thing they don’t get is that the people don’t like their policies coming from the extremists, known as the progressives of the party. There is a big divide within, and the progressives have total control. Making a battle out of Trump’s ballroom is weak, really weak. All IMO.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4562725/schumer-democrats-white-house-ballroom/
“Schumer outlined concerns about Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) effort to secure $1 billion in federal funding for White House security, including relating to President Donald Trump’s new ballroom project. Schumer argued in a letter that the funding, proposed in the judiciary committee’s reconciliation bill, is unnecessary. Democrats will use legislative maneuvers to block the provision from passing the Senate, he warned.
“Democrats will fight the Republicans’ reconciliation bill with every tool we have,” Schumer wrote. “We will bring Byrd Rule challenges. We will offer floor amendments. And we will force vote after vote to make the choice unmistakable: will Republicans vote to help American families — to lower costs, to restore savage health care cuts, to roll back cost-spiking tariffs — or will they vote to fund Trump’s gaudy ballroom?” he wrote.
The Byrd Rule allows lawmakers to raise a point of order to the Senate parliamentarian to challenge any provision of a reconciliation bill they deem “extraneous.” The rule aims to prevent lawmakers from hijacking the reconciliation process to pass partisan provisions that are not budgetary in nature and would likely face difficulty passing under normal procedures.”