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Anna Betts

Senate Republicans propose package including $1bn that could go to Trump ballroom

Men in orange vests and hard hats seen through the silhouette of a window in the foreground.
Construction of the White House ballroom seen from the East Room in Washington DC on Monday. Photograph: Abaca/Shutterstock

Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m ballroom that is part of Donald Trump’s “East Wing modernization project”.

Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, released the funding plan on Monday, as part of a wider bill the Republican party plans to pass along party lines to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies involved in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.

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