We have some major developments this afternoon. The Republican Party in the United States Senate is quietly sneaking in a provision into another funding bill that would provide a billion dollars of your taxpayer dollars to fund Donald Trump's ballroom. After telling us for months that the ballroom would be funded by private donors, that it would cost $400 million. Well, now we're in the stage where taxpayers may soon foot the bill, not to the tune of $400 million, but to the tune of $1 billion.

And it was snuck into a provision in a Senate reconciliation budget bill, a billion out of the $72 billion they want to fund CBP, ICE, immigration

enforcement with, will go to funding Donald Trump's ballroom. Is it going to pass?

Likely. And we're going to talk about it right now so that you're aware.

Trump, meanwhile, just had an event in the Oval Office that we're going to get to momentarily.

And I spoke with L.A. mayoral candidate Nithia Ramon, who's running for mayor right now, leading in many polls at the end of this interview.

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This is a piece of part of the Senate reconciliation bill, and I want to read it with you.

It's titled United States Secret Service, quote, appropriation. In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated

to the United States Secret Service for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not

otherwise appropriated, $1 billion to remain available until September 30th,

2029 for the purposes of security adjustments and upgrades, including within the perimeter

fence of the White House compound to support enhancements by the United States Secret Service

relating to the East Wing Modernization Project, including above-ground and below-ground security

features. The East Wing modernization project is the above ground and below ground security features.

The East Wing modernization project is the ballroom.

Above ground features are the ballroom itself.

Below ground features are that massive military industrial complex that the president is actively building.

Underneath the ground, we don't really know what the details are.

Now, the one small, small, small silver lining here for folks who are upset about the money being spent,

is that given that this money will be appropriated by Congress, there are some oversight mechanisms that Congress has to actually review who is spending the money,

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