Trump Wants $1 BILLION in Taxpayer Money for His Ballroom | Morning Shots Live
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Sam Stein and Bill Kristol are going live to discuss Senate Republicans' request for $1 billion in taxpayer money for Trump's ballroom after Trump claimed it was "free of charge." Plus Pete Hegseth announces a new military campaign in Iran, while also claiming the ceasefire is still in place.
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| 0:30.2 | All right. Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, here with Bill Crystal. You are not imagining |
| 0:34.3 | things. This is not Maga Mondays. I'm not Andrew Eger. |
| 0:39.1 | This is Morning Shots Live. |
| 0:40.9 | Tuesday, May 5th. |
| 0:42.0 | Happy Cinco to Mayo, Bill. |
| 0:44.0 | And happy Cinco de You. |
| 0:49.5 | And just to be clear, Andrew Egger has not been fired, disciplined, benched, or suspended yet. |
| 0:51.4 | He just has a bad sore throat. And so Sam, I was happy, I was happy, I think to, to, to, uh, thank you for stepping in. Thank you for stepping in, Sam. As far as I understand it, Andrew is at Trump Tower now getting one of those taco bowls that Trump tweeted about 10 years ago for synchred in my, uh, just can't stay away that guy he loves him so much um all right we're going to talk |
| 1:12.8 | about some stuff today we got a host of uh things to discuss ballroom shenanigans |
| 1:18.3 | pete higgs had a little briefing this morning uh what else do we want to talk about bill |
| 1:24.6 | we'll we'll make it a potpourri we can go different places you you want to go. I want to start with the ballroom. So setting this up last night, well, I guess I got to step back a little further. Republicans in Congress are considering a reconciliation bill. And not to bore listeners right out of the gate. But reconciliation bill is something you can pass with a party line vote in the Senate, in the House. It allows you to just do budgetary things. So it has to be |
| 1:50.2 | related to dollars and cents, which is why they probably can't do the Save America Act in there. |
| 1:55.6 | So anyways, they're going to do the second reconciliation bill and it requires all the committees |
| 1:59.1 | to put together what they want in that |
| 2:01.3 | bill and so last night the senate judiciary republicans put together their wish list for what they |
| 2:07.8 | want in their portion of the reconciliation bill and it's a doozy there's tens of billions of dollars |
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