Schumer details strategy to oppose $1 billion for ballroom security

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday detailed his caucus’s strategy to block a Republican measure centered on White House security funding.

Schumer outlined concerns about Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) effort to secure $1 billion in federal funding for White House security, including relating to President Donald Trump’s new ballroom project. Schumer argued in a letter that the funding, proposed in the judiciary committee’s reconciliation bill, is unnecessary. Democrats will use legislative maneuvers to block the provision from passing the Senate, he warned.