A project once sold as privately funded is now at the centre of a taxpayer row after Senate Republicans attached $1 billion (£752 million) in security money to a border enforcement bill.
A Fox News report shared that Senate Republicans have quietly added the funding to a sweeping immigration package that would send large sums to ICE, Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies. The money is earmarked for the US Secret Service and described as security funding tied to Trump's White House ballroom and the wider East Wing Modernisation Project.
