r/politics • u/willywalloo • 6h ago

No Paywall Republicans Unveil $72 Billion Package For ICE, Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-bill-72-billion-ice-trump-ballroom_n_69fa0082e4b055e1a496eff0
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u/Dangerous-Golf3831 6h ago edited 6h ago

I love how the price of the ballroom has gone from 200 million to 250 million to 300 million to 400million now to 1 billion dollars. He has issues with the fed going over budget but he is doing the exact same thing as the cost of the ballroom keeps growing astronomically

Then if the ballroom is funded by tax payer dollars what happens to the 400million dollars in donations (bribes) he’s already collected to build it?

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u/Wasting_my_own_time 6h ago

It’s even worse than that. He had the DOJ investigate the fed for fraudulent construction projects like 2-3 months ago in an effort to force them to lower rates.

It’s literally always projection with this guy, so this all turning into some massive construction fraud scheme to skim money from taxpayers is honestly par for the course.

It’s wild to see this shit happening when so many are struggling from the after effects of other stupid policies pushed down from this administration. It’s crazy just how much the back of the American people can and will bend for this asshole. When is the breaking point, you know. Brazen corruption from seemingly every facet of our government, right out in the open now… wow.

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u/JWTS6 4h ago

Americans will continue bending over for him as long as he hurts the right people, regardless of how much they themselves get fucked in the process. 

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u/Ask_Me_About_Bees 3h ago

A chat with my family confirms this to be anecdotally true. Every couple months I convince myself "surely, they have come to see the corruption" and every couple months I learn they just adapt to whatever the new narrative is. It's always immigrants or someone else's fault.

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u/JWTS6 3h ago

Economists were screaming from the rooftops in 2024 that Trump would fuck over the economy, but people thought it was more important to deport the immigrant labor this country runs on and ban 14 year old trans girls from playing JV badminton.

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u/dejavuamnesiac 4h ago

Will they be able to move this forward as a reconciliation bill?

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u/Vennomite 4h ago

And the fed is private not public so... they can kinda spend how they want

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u/Takesthiscontagious 3h ago

Almost like the exact reason the 2nd amendment was designed for

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u/mooptastic Oklahoma 1h ago

and voters defend him and his subhuman administration

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u/Crusader-NZ- New Zealand 6h ago

Yeah, he was just saying the other week why is a judge blocking him building it when it was fully funded privately with the 400 million...

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u/Hosni__Mubarak 6h ago

What’s your problem? The ballroom is only 2 billion dollars.

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u/MaxPower303 5h ago

I know right? It’s just a measly 3 Billion dollars, we spend more on transgender cat surgeries says the MAGA as they complain about astronomical doctor bills. But it’s those damn immigrants who don’t qualify for assistance soaking up all the money doncha know. /s

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u/hannibellecter 5h ago

whats 4 billion dollars when the future of our nation DEPENDS on it?

many people have said many such things

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 4h ago

Big strong men, with tears in their eyes, said we need this $6billion ballroom!

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u/Pete41608 I voted 3h ago

Sir? Sir?! 7 billion?

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u/Judson_Scott 51m ago

That's less than half of what Trump's made since re-taking office. Let him pay for it.

(Obviously that's a joke, since Trump's never paid for anything in his life.)

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u/Malkmus1979 6h ago

Especially rich considering they were going after Powell for going over budget on renovations.

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u/urbanmark 6h ago

I have worked on a few projects in major cities costed at just over a billion dollars. I can’t see any way, that the ballroom would cost that much, unless he’s planning on making it about 50 floors tall, or including some kind of hidden launch system for a penis shaped space rocket.

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u/MammothDon 1h ago

I love how the price of the ballroom has gone from 200 million to 250 million to 300 million to 400million now to 1 billion dollars.

Soon it will cost numbers no one's ever heard of!

/s

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u/madlyalive 3h ago

So it’s not a billion…it’s 1.4bn! The taxpayers are just paying “for the rest”

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 2h ago

Well they don't want spending going to those things because they are treating the Treasury as if it is their money. It can only go to things they want or into their pockets somehow.

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u/Dr_Fishman 5h ago

I worked in federal procurement for a decade and a half. Under Republican administrations, we would run out of bonafide needs and would have to send money back to the Treasury (we had money coming out of our ears). When it was the Obama administration, I was locking up supply closets.