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CQ Budget, Episode No. 391

Senate Democrats are waging an offensive against $1 billion in reconciliation funding for security related to plans for a White House ballroom.
Senate Democrats are waging an offensive against $1 billion in reconciliation funding for security related to plans for a White House ballroom. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Democrats are taking aim at $1 billion in the GOP’s reconciliation bill for security funds connected to plans for a White House ballroom. CQ Roll Call’s Paul M. Krawzak joins host David Lerman for a look at the procedural challenges facing the security money and how it could complicate passage of a bill designed to provide immigration enforcement funding.

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