{"id":3367,"date":"2026-05-05T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:25:22","slug":"senate-republicans-pander-to-trump-in-reconciliation-bill-throwing-billions-more-to-ice-and-trumps-tacky-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Pander to Trump in Reconciliation Bill, Throwing Billions More to ICE and Trump\u2019s Tacky Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee released its reconciliation bill, tacking $1 billion for Donald Trump\u2019s White House ballroom project and $70 billion for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Citizen Co-President Lisa Gilbert <\/strong>issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of using a simple majority process to fund billions more in ICE cruelty is abhorrent, but now the Senate has piled corrupt absurdity on top of that inhumane move, by adding in 1 billion dollars to fund the grandiose, bombastic, vanity project\u2014the golden White House ballroom. Using taxpayer dollars to toady to a wannabe-dictator is both pandering and pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee released its reconciliation bill, tacking $1 billion for Donald Trump\u2019s White House ballroom project and $70 billion for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). Public Citizen Co-President Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement: \u201cThe idea of using a simple majority process to fund billions more in ICE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}