I thought private investors were paying for it... SMH
Meanwhile they're asking for donations to help pay down the $39 trillion deficit.
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It's a GOOD thing we ELIMINATED VA Benefits, Food for our Troops, Free Meals for Kids, SNAP Benefits and Healthcare so we could Afford this Ballroom!
This ballroom is so he can hide there and run the government after the next election. He's definitely planning a coup. The republicans are helping.
I was told today that it will be a data center
i'm calling it now
But every definitely-not-a-bot commenter on social media told me they weren't using any taxpayer dollars????
Not just social media. I'm pretty sure that Donald Dumbfuck Trump said that it wouldn't cost taxpayers anything.
Didn't it start out at half that, at $200 million? And havent we been promised it will be privately funded?
This just amounts to "lol oopsie. Torn down a historic structure and now you owe me $400 million to fix my recklessness". Just brain dead bullshit
Fucking. Morons.
Why do Republicans need ball room? They gave theirs to Pump and Dump Rump back in 2016.
“Every time, all the time. Like, ‘How are you doing?’ ‘Where’s the ballroom?’ ‘How you playing [golf]?’ ‘I don’t know, I’d play better if you built the ballroom.’ It’s all the time,” Graham said with a chuckle. “He understands what’s missing.”
Not even Lindsey can hide the fact that the President fixates on things like a three-year-old
I'm glad they with held EBT benifits for a surprise month, but they're fine pushing this through.
The French would have already handled this.
We are weak.
If a Democratic President makes it in, I'd want the White House to become the Rainbow House, and the East Wing to become the MAGA Wall of Shame- memorial.
I want them to repossess Mar a Lago to pay to rebuild the Whitehouse as it was.
Turn East Wing into the equivalent of the Holocaust ~~Museum~~ Memorial, but for ICE internment camps (with a section dedicated to forced indigenous removal and Japanese internment). Make Americans face what's been done in their name and with their money.
EDITED to change the name to the Holocaust Memorial.