美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)获得了一份一页长的分析报告，内容是白宫表示打算如何花费一些共和党人希望批准的10亿美元，用于唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统对白宫东翼的翻新，其中包括特朗普大型舞厅的建设。
这份没有详细说明的文件是由美国特勤局局长肖恩·柯伦在周二的一次午餐会上提交给参议院共和党人的。
尽管白宫坚持认为，在白宫记者协会晚宴上针对川普的暗杀企图发生后，这笔资金是必要的，但在柯伦的简报后，参议院共和党人似乎仍然对10亿美元的请求持怀疑态度。
“他给了我们一份更详细的开支清单，但是...仍然有很多问题，”共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪说。“这不是唯一的担忧，但我们最大的担忧之一是增加赤字。”
共和党参议员吉姆·贾斯蒂斯(Jim Justice)通常是特朗普的坚定盟友，他告诉美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)国会山记者杰伊·奥布莱恩(Jay O'Brien)，该项目的成本“巨大”。
“我无法想象在安全上花费十亿美元，你知道，但我不是安全专家，”Justice说。
Justice说，虽然他支持建造舞厅，甚至将政府资金用于安保，但他希望政府官员更好地解释拟议的10亿美元将如何使用。
“我想至少看看那到底是什么。你知道，我们为了10亿美元在做什么，因为今天有很多人在一天结束时真的真的真的很受伤...我们不需要多花一美元，”他补充道。
虽然参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩(John Thune)仍然坚持认为，拨款请求可以纳入正在进行的和解进程，但它面临着赢得50名共和党人投票的艰苦斗争。
也不清楚该条款是否会通过参议院严格的审查程序。预计民主党人将在参议院议员面前争辩说，这笔支出是无关的，因此不应该被允许包括在和解法案中。
自从共和党人打算为舞厅提供资金的消息上周公开以来，民主党人一再抨击这一提议。参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)周三上午在参议院发表演讲时批评政府专注于舞厅，而不是降低消费者成本。
舒默说:“在77%的美国人说唐纳德·特朗普的政策增加了他们的生活成本的时候，特朗普和参议院共和党试图强行通过一项法案，该法案将花费10亿纳税人的钱在镀金的舞厅上，而不是花一分钱来降低成本，”舒默引用美国有线电视新闻网本周早些时候的一项民意调查，该调查发现77%的人说特朗普的政策增加了他们自己社区的生活成本。
“特朗普可能试图建造一个舞厅，但显然他生活在荒谬的剧院里，”舒默补充道。
这10亿美元的请求是对USSS 2025财年32亿美元年度预算的补充。
Breakdown of $1 billion request for Trump's White House ballroom project
ABC News has obtained a one-page breakdown of how the White House says it intends to spend the $1 billion that some Republicans want to approve for President Donald Trump's East Wing renovation to the White House, which includes the construction of Trump's massive ballroom.
The document -- which was provided without elaboration -- was presented by U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran to Senate Republicans during a luncheon on Tuesday.
While the White House has insisted the funding is necessary in the wake of the assassinationattempt against Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Senate Republicans still appeared skeptical of the $1 billion request following Curran's briefing.
"He gave us a list that breaks down the spending in a little more detail, but ... there are still a lot of questions," said Republican Sen. John Kennedy. "It's not the only concern, but one of the biggest concerns on our side is adding to the deficit."
Republican Sen. Jim Justice -- typically a staunch Trump ally -- told ABC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Jay O'Brien that cost for the project was "enormous."
"I can't imagine spending a billion dollars, you know, on security,but I'm not a security expert," Justice said.
Justice said that while he supports building the ballroom and even using government funds on security, he wants administration officials to better explain exactly how the proposed $1 billion would be used.
"I'd like to at least see what that really is. You know, what are we doing for a billion dollars, because you've got a lot of people today that are really hurtingand really and truly at the end of the day ... we don't need to spend one extra dollar,”he added.
While Senate Majority Leader John Thune remains adamant that the funding request could be tucked into the ongoing reconciliation process, it faces an uphill battle earning 50 Republican votes.
It's also not clear whether the provision will make it through the Senate's rigorous review process. Democrats are expected to argue before the Senate's parliamentarian that the spending is extraneous and therefore should not be allowed to be included in a reconciliation bill.
Since news of Republicans' intention to include funding for the ballroom became public last week, Democrats have repeatedly hammered the proposal. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the administration for focusing on the ballroom instead of lowering consumer costs during a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday morning.
"At a time when 77% -- that's 77% -- of Americans say that Donald Trump's policies have increased their cost of living, Trump and the Senate GOP try to force through a bill that would spend a billion taxpayer dollars on a gilded ballroom and not one penny on bringing down costs," Schumer said, referencinga CNN poll out earlier this weekthat found 77% say that Trump’s policies have increased the cost of living in their own community.
"Trump may be trying to build a ballroom but clearly he is living in the theater of the absurd," Schumer added.
The $1 billion request is in addition to the annual USSS budget, $3.2 billion in FY 2025.
