Trump and Republicans want to fund Trump’s billionaire ballroom with your tax dollars. Here’s how we would spend that $1 billion instead:

THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA: COSTS. CHAOS. CORRUPTION.

The Trump Administration has repeatedly mishandled Americans' sensitive personal data and resisted congressional oversight when those failures come to light. @merkley.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov are demanding answers about CMS' latest failure to protect provider data.

🚨🚨NEW DATA from @SenateBudget: Republicans are moving to give ICE and Border Patrol $70 BILLION, but the agencies are already sitting on $100 BILLION. All while families are struggling to afford the basics. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

@merkley.senate.gov is demanding answers about the Navy's 'Trump battleship.' The American people deserve to know that every dollar spent on national security actually makes our country safer—not disappear into the coffers of the military industrial complex.

Congress should focus on lowering costs and helping families make ends meet. Instead, Republicans are trying to ram through a partisan bill to fund Trump's ballroom and a rogue ICE agency that already received 7x its annual funding last year.

So, Trump wants to spend: $1.5 TRILLION on the Pentagon’s budget $1.2 TRILLION on his ‘Golden Dome' $70 BILLION more on ICE and border patrol chaos $1 BILLION on his ballroom But he can’t find any money to help families afford health care, child care, or housing?

There is NOTHING in Republicans’ reconciliation bill that makes it easier to afford your rent, your weekly groceries, or a tank of gas.

Are Republican politicians really this disconnected from reality?

🚨Senate Democrats forced Republicans to strip the $1 BILLION for Trump’s ballroom from their ICE/Border Patrol funding bill. While we expect Republicans to appease Trump and redraft, Democrats will fight any new provision. Taxpayers shouldn’t fund Trump’s gold-plated ballroom.

Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, health care cuts, and a reckless war of choice, families are already paying more for gas, groceries, and essential care. And now Republicans want taxpayers to foot the bill for a $1 BILLION luxury ballroom for Trump. Shameful.

One of the most honest things Trump has ever said: He doesn’t consider how much his reckless war is costing Americans.

🚨🚨HUGE UPDATE: Senate Democrats forced Republicans to rewrite parts of their ICE and Border Patrol funding bill to add critical protections for children in DHS custody. It’s a win for the rule of law as Democrats continue fighting every provision in this harmful legislation.

Families are struggling to afford gas, groceries, and housing. But Trump and Senate Republicans are focused on spending $1 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars on a golden ballroom for Trump’s billionaire friends to enjoy. Completely out of touch.

"Enhancements for protectee security" at "frequently visited venues" seems like a long way to say taxpayer funded renovations to Trump-owned golf courses and Mar-a-Lago.

Trump and Republicans made health care more expensive for MILLIONS of Americans and now they’re being forced to drop their coverage. Not only did Trump break his promise to lower costs, but he raised costs so much that families are losing health care. So wrong.

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ giveaway to defense contractors will cost taxpayers at least $1.2 TRILLION. And this is the same President who said we couldn’t afford to pay for child care. apnews.com/article/trum...

Just like the Trump’s symbolic renaming of the Department of Defense or his deployment of National Guard troops to our cities, this move to fund the ‘Golden Dome’ will be far more effective at squandering money than protecting American lives. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Right now, families are struggling to afford sky-high gas, grocery, and housing prices. But what’s the Republican trifecta prioritizing? Another partisan bill to pour TENS OF BILLIONS of more dollars into ICE chaos and $1 BILLION for Trump’s ballroom.

Republicans are pushing a reconciliation bill that would give ICE and Border Patrol almost $70 BILLION for Trump’s lawless federal agents and A BILLION of your tax dollars to fund Trump’s gold-plated ballroom. Madness!

Congress should be focused on lowering costs. Instead, Republicans are trying to ram through nearly $70 BILLION more in funding for ICE and border patrol which already have $100 BILLION+ cash on hand. Why is this their top priority?

Imagine an America that invests in health care, nutrition, and child care rather than Republicans’ endless spending on foreign wars.

Trump is determined to complete his gold-plated ballroom boondoggle however he can—even if taxpayers have to foot the bill. HELL NO.

Budgets are about priorities. Here are the Republican priorities in the reconciliation bill: Nearly $70 BILLION MORE for ICE and Border Patrol to terrorize our communities A BILLION for his gold-plated ballroom …and nothing to make life more affordable for families.

While families deal with sky-high gas, grocery, and housing costs, Trump is pushing for a $1.5 TRILLION war budget, $70 BILLION more for ICE chaos, and a $400 MILLION “golden ballroom” that's suitable for a monarchy, not a republic. That says everything about his priorities.

Amazon got an $18 BILLION tax cut from Trump. That one loophole for one company could fund two programs Trump wants to eliminate—$4B LIHEAP fund that helps families with their heating bills and $11 B for affordable housing—with billions left. Trump has the wrong priorities.

NEW: Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov's Statement on Republicans’ Bill Gifting ICE, Border Patrol Billions While Ignoring Middle Class Families

There’s nothing in Trump’s budget that will help you afford your rent, your grocery bill, or a tank of gas. But there is plenty set aside for endless foreign wars.

Trump's vanity project to rename DOD could cost up to $125 MILLION—money that could instead help: 🥗110,000 pregnant women get meals through WIC 🍼16,500 families get child care 📚7,600 kids access Head Start And solve many other REAL problems Americans are facing.

The last thing we need to fund is a gold-plated monument to Trump’s ego while families are struggling to get by. That is exactly why @merkley.senate.gov objected to Republicans’ bill to authorize funding for Trump’s ballroom on the Senate Floor this week.🔥

We can think of countless better ways to spend $400 million of taxpayer money than funding Trump’s vanity projects.

U.S. debt is now bigger than our entire economy. What are Trump and Republicans doing? 💰Spending BILLIONS on foreign wars 💰Cutting taxes for billionaires and corporations 💰Proposing a 2027 budget with a $2.2 TRILLION deficit So much for the party of “fiscal responsibility.”

Just another week in Trump’s America:

There will be NOTHING in Republicans’ next reconciliation bill that makes it easier to afford your rent, your weekly groceries, or a tank of gas.

In this Republican-run Congress, addressing the high costs facing hardworking Americans is not as important as throwing billions of dollars at Trump’s rogue police. Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov's full statement on House Passage of Budget Resolution: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Americans don't want to keep spending TENS OF BILLIONS on foreign wars while millions of families here at home live in poverty and go hungry. If Trump truly cared about our country, he'd be spending the $25 BILLION on housing, health care, and education.

Alphabet received an $18.4 BILLION tax cut from Trump. That could've funded 4 cuts from Trump's latest budget: $11 B cut to housing $5 B cut to the National Institute of Health $2.5 B cut to the Center for Disease Control $200 M in cuts to food assistance for women and kids

The $125 MILLION it could cost to rename DOD is nearly as much as Trump's proposed cuts to WIC—money that helps moms and kids eat. It's wasteful and immoral to fund Trump's vanity projects or his "golden ballroom" while families struggle to afford the basics.

Because of Trump, Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes last year. The $1.2B they would've owed could nearly fund the $1.6B Job Corps program Trump wants to eliminate, which provides vocational training to young Americans. Trump has the wrong priorities.

During an all-night vote-a-rama, Democrats offered amendment after amendment to correct the course of this bill and meet the needs of working families. Every single time—Republicans voted to block them. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Instead of listening to hardworking Americans and funding health care, housing, and education, what have Republicans come to the floor to do? Pass another mega bill that does nothing to help families make ends meet.

Why the hell are Republicans prioritizing giving ICE and Border Patrol TENS OF BILLIONS more in funding when they are currently sitting on OVER $100 BILLION from last year? Republicans are choosing this over helping Americans with the cost of living crisis they’re facing.

Just like rest of his presidency, Trump’s 2027 budget is families lose, billionaires win.

Rather than focusing on lowering the cost of gas or groceries, Congressional Republicans are hellbent on passing another unpopular reconciliation bill to provide even more funds to ICE and border patrol.   Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov’s full statement: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Amazon and Meta are billion-dollar corporations. So, why’d they get a massive tax cut from the bill Republicans say is for “working families?”

One week in Trump’s economy:

SEN. JOHNSON: "We are getting ripped off by the military industrial complex." Even Republicans agree there is waste, fraud, and abuse baked into the Pentagon's budget. So why are they primed to give Trump a $1.5 TRILLION military budget this year?

Nobody’s buying what Trump’s selling. Republicans in Congress should take note.

Trump’s budget is America Last. He wants to slash funding for housing, food, health care, research, education, and dozens of other programs families rely on, just to fund more foreign wars.

Republicans always talk about fiscal responsibility, meanwhile, they want a $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon budget to keep funding an unpopular, illegal war in Iran. You lose health care and SNAP, pay skyrocketing gas prices, while defense contractors rake in BILLIONS from taxpayers.