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Chris Stein in Washington

Senate Democrats to fight Republicans’ $1bn funding plan for Trump’s ballroom

a man speaks into microphones while people stand behind him
The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said: ‘We will force vote after vote to make the choice unmistakable.’ Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Chuck Schumer, the US Senate’s top Democrat, has vowed to oppose a Republican plan to spend $1bn on security improvements for the ballroom Donald Trump is seeking to build on the White House’s former East Wing.

The money is set to be included in a measure Republicans plan to pass that would allocate about $70bn to the federal agencies leading Trump’s mass deportation campaign, with the intention of keeping them operational through the remainder of the president’s term.

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