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Its not a ballroom its a massive ai surveillance doomsday bunker

Right after we get done paying all the corporations for the tariffs we just paid.

In other words, we're paying billions and billions for Trump's personal security, personal ballroom and personal secret police. No tinpot dictator in history has fleeced the population more than Trump.

The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States (2024) that presidents have absolute criminal immunity for official acts and "presumptive immunity" for other official acts. This makes it extremely difficult to hold a president legally accountable. This is why nothings happening.

Also, they made sure to tear it down before this little factoid came to light.

Someone needs to help Grandpa Grassley back to the home

His supporters don't care. As long as that money isn't going to "those" people they don't care.

This is no budget, but Grand Theft Larceny. OF OUR MONEY...!

$1 billion? What, is it made out of gold? Oh, right.

These "reconciliation" shams cannot be allowed to continue. They erode what little is left of the Congressional "Power of the Purse," and give the President free access to the taxpayers' pockets.

Mhmm. As I pointed out when the Ballroom was first released to the public, it is a bunker and the ballroom is a facade. Looks like I'm right...again.

BILLION!!!!

No. NO. No. HELL no! If trump wants to have his ballroom, he should go begging those donors he says he has for the money and stop using taxpayers to pay for his vanity projects while we can barely make ends meet and can't pay for health insurance!

And $30B for ICE?!

Doesn't this still have to pass the Senate and House?

The “donors will pay for the ballroom” was about as truthful as “Mexico will pay for the wall.” But now even his MAGATs aren’t falling for the BS.

America, REPUBLICANS are ROBBING YOU BLIND! Don't you think it's time to STOP THE STEAL? Vote these bastards OUT before there's nothing left!

Trump stole that money too

And the hundreds of millions in corporate bribes that have already been raised will go where, I wonder?

And Mexico will pay for the wall. Did we not learn anything?

Unbelievable

aka the Fuhrer bunker

From 350 million to a billion Near triple of the original price that donors were to pay for The donors have become the general taxpayers which was the original intent all along The grift continues

Look at how much money we are spending to kick people out when it would be infinitely cheaper to just let them stay. Nothing to do with their supposed “strain” on the economy and all about ethnic cleansing.

That short list contains $35 billion to persecute people, $1 billion for a gaudy ballroom, but not one penny to help sick people or stop gun violence. From a Canadian perspective it seems that the values of "the greatest democracy in the history of the planet" are rather skewed.

Let's make Mexico pay for it! ( It worked out so well last time)

Just park Air Farce One where the east wing was and call it a day. There, problem solved! Just saved $400 million! (Thank me later)

Der Führerbunker

Quick note: you can't modernize that which doesn't exist. Trump bulldozed the East Wing and wants to replace it with a monstrosity at our expense. Taxpayer money and American history removed because he's a narcissistic crybaby who hates America.

Democratic candidates everywhere - they’re writing the campaign topics for you!

ONE BILLION DOLLARS? Over their gd dead bodies

Good. Let them go down with Donnie's exceptionally loathed vanity project. Force taxpayers to fund it. We can stop production in 2027 and claw back all those funds when they get their asses kicked for forcing us to fund his vanity project.

Your phone 📱 won’t dial itself!

Any money that he has coming in is now his personal bankroll.

Yea same old bullshit from Trump. That's why he wouldn't disclose donors.

Sure he is, except the part where they're "donors" in the protection racket sense. "Greet my concigliere on the way out and we'll take care of your little problem. Remember our little deal and if I happen to drop by sometime I'll be delighted to greet your wife and beautiful daughters."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

People who think Dump or any current Republican will voluntarily leave office in the upcoming elections really need to think twice. These people don’t give a hoot what anyone else thinks about their governance because they’ve decided America is now a 1 party state.

Their a scam !

It's not surprising that we will get stuck with the bill. I'm taking precautions not to react I want to stay alive long enough to see Trump get taken to court for all this grifting. Then I want a jury to award a judgment against Trump to the tune of $10 Billion dollars in damages in a civil suit.

No, we won't. He , personally, has to pay for returning it to its original look. All his in-office profiteering makes that more than feasible.

Hell no! Call Congress now, my friends. Use you power. 📞202-224-3121 Capital switchboard

Most of the world knew Trump was lying about funding for the ridiculous ballroom. But despite the fact that if his lips are moving he’s lying, America still believed him. He wantonly destroyed the historical East Wing (owned by the American people), yet America still did nothing. Mugs

Is goldleaf a "security feature"?

republicans are traitors to us all.

Not $1 for that monstrous waste of money. No money for ICE while we’re at it.

It’s just like when Trump said Mexico was going to pay for his wall. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 TRUMP IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR! He doesn’t know how to tell the truth. CONGRESS YOU HAD BETTER VOTE NO!!!!!!

So if the #MAGA fanatics vote for 1 billion dollars for Orange Idiot's stupid ballroom, what happens to the 300 million the billionaires gave for it? Right into the pocket of Shitler so he can fund fascist candidates for the 2026 midterms

The donor money always was bribes all along. That the tax payers were going to pay for it was given from the start.

ONE BILLION!

I hope it collapses on itself!

No one ever doubted this, not even the fools who doubted this.

1 BILLION?! Wtf What about 400 Million? I bet its all a grift

I just spent $350 on groceries. $150 more than I did at the beginning of the year. If the Dems win. I want blood, I want to make sure every one of those bastard hurt just as much and more. Tar and feather the bastards.

hell to the no with every item on this list

I'm surprised Mexico didn't pay for it since they stiffed us on the border wall.

Nope, I won’t

You US Taxpayers are the donors

See thread. bsky.app/profile/left...

Ballroom Republicans & their Epstein Ballroom.

Fdjt

But mexico paid for the wall

Wait a minute Mexico never paid for the wall either? Those millionaires that got that tax break they better pay for the fucking ballessroom

Poor old, very old Grassley, imagines that calling the 'ballroom' a "modernization project" will surely pull the wool over taxpayers' eyes. Let's make sure it doesn't.

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Yep. A rerun of Mexico will pay for the wall.

Leave the deconstructed eyesore as it is and tie up the whole approval process in fact-finding and litigation— for the duration of this term. Charge the current occupant with destruction of an historic property without authorization. Make him account for every piece of ‘debri$.’ Sold? Probably.

The whole thing was all so he could have a bunker to hide in as he tries to end Democracy again.

These clowns are going to bankrupt the country just to stay in the good graces of a failing psychopath.

Did he not say the taxpayers are not paying for it?

And how about this number: $30 billion for ICE? They're already get more funding than the military budgets of entire countries, and they want MORE? More money so they can continue to assault, imprison and kill immigrants? Enough is enough: Republicans must lose in the midterms. No excuses.

Republicans are the worst party ever.

Conservatives and Conservative Republicans and the GOP - ALWAYS LIE! Lying is a fundamental pillar of conservatism along with racism, greed, and hating non-rich Americans.

I would much rather have that money go to impenetrable ballrooms for schools. We NEVER asked for a ballroom or to change the classic look of OUR House to accommodate one. He still has that bunker he can go and hide in. Yet the GOP cares for their Leader over their own constituents who elect them.

And we'll pay for the demolition, as well. Gladly.

$30bn for ICE is a slight problem, too

I think once they finish it He will then have it set on fire and blame Iran And then POCKET the insurance money.

I’m guessing the old East Wing already had the Security it needed before it was quickly demolished.

Republicans sink lower and lower every day. They don’t care about anyone but themselves and their puppet master. People need to wake the fuck up and vote all of them out.

Just spitballing here but I’m getting the feeling that these funds are going into Trump’s pocket via 3rd parties but yet he complained about the renovation of the Fed Reserve buildings

I'll pay a few years sure but will be dead and gone my kids and grandkids will be footing that fucking bill for a bunch of lies and bullshit!

Why in the world does ICE need $30 billion in this as well? Especially when they already gave them $85 billion in the big fugly bill.

He WILL keep the billionaire donations though. No way is he giving that back.

And also 30 billion for ICE! Are you f'ing kidding me?

It will be the best bunker/ballroom ever. Safety and elegance. Glittery and re-enforced. No expense spared.

1 billion??? First, it was 200 million, then 300 million, then 350 million and 400 million. And wealthy donors were paying for it. Now, we have to pay for it at 1 billion US dollars???

How can this possibly cost a billion dollars? Bribes and scams. If Americans allow this to proceed the fu,king well deserve to have him president for life.

F’ing nuts! 😤

That's what I've been wondering since back when he was thick as thieves with Elon and bragging "they" were going into Fort Knox to "inspect" the gold.

unconstitutional

That orange menace won't be around long enough to see it fully built, let alone see the next normal president tear the fucker down.

Not to mention that the price just keeps going up. I wonder what bets he's trying to cover with our money?

Wait…Didn’t the cost start at 200m and then 400m that would be paid by donors. Now the cost will be one billion paid by US taxpayers? Talk about cost overruns! And wasn’t cost overruns the reason trump’s DOJ was trying to indict the Fed Chair?

Grassley is the poster idiot for term limits.

This is a pattern.

seems to me the trump org took it down, the trump org should be paying the whole cost. use that crypto crap

Are you suggesting that the guy who told us Mexico would pay for his wall lied to us about who would pay for his ballroom?

Ridiculous when people can’t afford health care, housing, food, gas, utilities, and DENTAL CARE vetoed by republicans… how many fear going to doctor and dentist because of high cost ??

Jerome Powell ought to throw on a hard hat and hand Trump a piece of paper about this. And where's Pirro?

They truly are all shameful cowards. Too afraid to oppose his pillaging of our treasury for his own narcissistic whims. And they had nothing to say when that orange fuck said he doesn’t want to spend money on scam programs like Medicaid, Medicaid and childcare to funds his sick obsessions. WTF?

The left has been running in a panic over the term "tax and spend liberal" for about 50 years. Hey guys, how about turning it around on the so called party of "fiscal conservatism"? They make drunken sailors look like penny pinching cheapskates.

Anyone who voted for him should pay.

Project 1789: Who’s for it?

The art of the deal. Also don’t forget you have planned for this.

…an idiot. They’re idiots. Just say it. My bunny slippers are more intelligent and far less gullible than the average MAGA muppet.

So we’re up to a billion now? These mother fuckers spend money faster than a crack whore

The East-Wing modernization? Really? I guess destroying something altogether is to modernize it. 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️

So it's that Mexico will pay for it crap again? You'd think by now people would assume he's lying when he's speaking. Smart people knew, and they know the ballroom is a dumbass vanity project like a lot of his ideas have been. Have you seen the White House lately? Gimme a break. All that gold?

Oh FFS So not only did Congress know about it, it looks like they failed to get details & Mango Mussolini just went ahead and bulldozed the East Wing.

He won’t live to see it done.

Does this mean Mexico is not going to pay for the wall either? 🥺

1. Trump isn't getting his ballroom 2. Donors would only amount to bribery

Nevermind that he has no authority to do any of this without congressional approval.

$1 billion? What happened to $400 million? This is all just so stupid.

NOPE!

If they touch social security, they are going to all find themselves running for their lives

Just like the wall. #grifter

From $200M, funded by donations, to $1B funded by taxpayers. To correct a criminal demolition at the hands of Trump. Charge him, convict him, make him pay the restoration. No matter who pays, he had zero authority to demolish that part of the Whitehouse.

Also Mexico never paid for the wall Trump never paid contractors that worked with him Trump never donated his salary to charity He’s a pathological sociopathic narcissistic megalomaniac demented LIAR

We were ALWAYS going to pay for it one way or the other. All of those donors surprisingly are all government contractors that got increases in their funding. Coincidence? Not fucking hardly. Only difference is now we are going to pay for it TWICE.