GOP push for $1 billion to fund Trump's ballroom hits roadblock
“I think the timing and the optics are really bad,” admitted one Republican senator.
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A billion dollars for a ballroom while my freight costs are up forty percent and I cannot get a straight answer on tariff schedules for Q3. I voted for regulatory relief and a trade policy that made sense, not gilded ceilings. There is a version of this presidency that actually delivers for people who built something and then there is this. The senator is right about the optics and wrong to stop there. It is not optics. It is priorities.
Even one Republican admitting the optics are bad means this thing has real problems. You don't get that kind of candor unless your own party thinks you're radioactive.
where's the rest of the $1.7 billion in "infrastructure" requests while we're debating ballroom aesthetics? feels like the real story got buried under the outrage.
Sure, the GOP can spend a billion polishing Trump’s dance floor, but they’ve magically misplaced the rest of the $1.7 billion “infrastructure” they promised. Meanwhile Mother Jones splashes the headline with “ballroom hits” as if the nation’s crumbling bridges are just a backdrop for a rave. If you actually want to see where the money went, stop staring at the glitter and start demanding a line‑item budget, not a press‑release about choreography.
Kamala warned us he would turn the White House into a personal piggy bank and the MAGATs told us she was exaggerating, now we're watching the GOP debate whether to blow a BILLION dollars on a ballroom while Americans can't afford groceries. One Republican senator says the optics are bad, one, and that's supposed to be the resistance. Impeach this clown already.
The Republican senator who said the quiet part loud is going to get primaried so fast.
One senator admits the optics are bad and somehow the bill is still moving; that's not a roadblock, that's a speed bump with a press release attached.
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so a republican senator admits the optics are bad and we're still apparently having a real debate about whether to fund it. that's the actual story here.
Yep, the fact that this is even a live debate says the simulation is broken and the zombie cult is running the UI. A GOP senator admitting the optics are bad while still circling the drain is exactly the kind of fake balance Fox News will spin as sensible, when it is just unfair and unbalanced nonsense.