Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York.

So you know those slapstick comedies where the thief shoves an item under his shirt?

And it's so obvious and so conspicuous that the scene isn't really about a robbery.

It's really just to illustrate how stupid the thief is

and how obvious the thieving part of the plot is. Well, that's about where we are with Donald

Trump's attempt to get Republicans in Congress to steal from the American people to fund Donald

Trump's gold-guilded ballroom. Tucked inside a $72 billion with the B-E

dollar package filled with other politically toxic items, like $38 billion for ICE. Ice, of course,

the agency viewed favorably by just 30% of the American people and containing none of the

reform measures that Democrats have demanded after the killings of

Renee Good and Alex Pretty. So tucked inside of that is a $1 billion lump sum for Donald

Trump's ballroom. It is listed under, quote, security adjustments and upgrades. The Republican

chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley,

says in a statement that the funds are for security only and they cannot be spent on, quote,

non-security elements. But that $1 billion still goes toward something that the American people

never ask for and don't want.

And spending $1 billion of taxpayer money, of your money,

on anything related to Donald Trump's gold ballroom would be a complete flip-lop, a 180-degree reversal

from what Donald Trump promised.

The ballroom for the White House is the thing that you people have really, really been very generous with.

These are all private individuals that put up a lot of money to build the ballroom.

Not one penny is being used from the federal government.

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