Overview
- The GOP reconciliation text, released late Monday, sets aside $1 billion for Secret Service security work linked to the East Wing ballroom plan.
- The bill limits the money to above- and below-ground security features and lists no line-item uses, even as the sum far exceeds the $400 million construction estimate.
- The White House says the funding would let agents harden the complex after the April 25 Correspondents’ Dinner attack at the Washington Hilton.
- Democrats call the move a reversal of Trump’s pledge to rely on private donations and say they will try to strip the provision from the package.
- The measure still faces a parliamentarian review and simple-majority votes under reconciliation, and separate court fights continue with an appeals stay allowing work to proceed for now.