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Report: GOP would tap public and donor money to fund Trump's ballroom

politicsMay 7, 202647413

The Bulwark reports Republican operatives and GOP lawmakers are preparing proposals to tap federal dollars and party donor networks to help finance former President Donald Trump's planned ballroom project. The plans would route discretionary federal spending, party fundraising, and donor-bundling mechanisms toward construction costs, effectively shifting private project expenses onto public and partisan coffers. That push comes as U.S. federal debt has reached a worrying milestone, raising fresh ethical and fiscal questions about using taxpayer or party resources to underwrite a private facility tied to a single political figure.

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