Sen. Jeff Merkley BLASTS Trump’s Billion Dollar Gold-Plated Ballroom Boondoggle
Senate Committee on Appropriations · May 21, 2026
At a Senate Committee on Appropriations meeting, a single lawmaker argued against using the reconciliation process to advance a budget bill they said favors wealthy interests and includes large immigration enforcement funding; the lawmaker cited rising costs for families, large unobligated balances, and procedural precedent as reasons to oppose forwarding the measure to the full Senate.
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