Trump’s Own Party Revolts Over Fund, Ballroom, Paxton, Cuba
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Outfront next, breaking news, mutiny in the GOP, a remarkable moment. |
| 0:07.0 | Trump's own party and mass standing up to him tonight, and it's all over that $1.8 billion |
| 0:12.0 | defense fund. |
| 0:14.0 | Is it a turning point? |
| 0:15.0 | Plus Todd Blanche doing the president's bidding, making a very rare trip to Capitol Hill |
| 0:19.0 | to try to salvage Trump's most |
| 0:20.8 | important pet projects and a meeting that did not go well, leaving the DOJ with chaos tonight. |
| 0:27.4 | And new details about Stephen Colbert's final show, the late night host taping his show as I speak. |
| 0:32.1 | We've got new details about it. |
| 0:33.6 | Let's go out front. |
| 0:38.3 | Good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. And Outfront tonight, The Breaking News, Revolt. In an extraordinary moment, President Trump's own party has stood up to him, derailing his personal agenda. |
| 0:48.3 | It comes down first to the $1.8 billion Trump defense fund, a fund that Trump says would help people like him who were |
| 0:56.1 | targeted unfairly by the Justice Department. Now, the issue became so toxic that Senate Republicans |
| 1:00.9 | bailed on a vote on Trump's key immigration bill. Now, that vote is now uncertain. By the way, |
| 1:07.6 | this immigration bill, that's a policy issue, right? Many of them were fine with what was in it, but it was the extra things in it. Now they're gone from Memorial Day, so we'll see where this goes. But the casualty of that bill is also likely the $1 billion in now taxpayer funding for Trump's White House ballroom. That's likely to be stripped out of the immigration bill because the GOP isn't |
| 1:28.3 | going to support it. Strip it out or they're not going to pass it. It's pretty incredible. These are |
| 1:32.3 | Trump's pet projects and a centerpiece of his domestic policy agenda now stalled because of those |
| 1:38.4 | pet policy projects. Just listen to some Republicans speaking out about that $1.8 billion fund. |
| 1:46.8 | This is, I mean, this is just stupid on stilts. |
| 1:50.2 | I do not believe that individuals who were convicted of violence against police officers on January 6th should be entitled to reimbursement for their legal fees. |
| 2:07.0 | And Republican Senator Ron Johnson told Manu, quote, |
| 2:10.6 | somebody described it as a galactic blunder, and I think that's probably true. |
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