Cassidy: How'd a ballroom cost a billion?
No plans. No environmental review. No engineering specs. Just a ballroom that somehow landed exactly a billion dollars in costs and nobody can explain it.
Cassidy's point: people are worried about mortgages and groceries while Trump's admin is setting up an $1.8 billion slush fund with zero oversight and no legal precedent. If there's a settlement needed, it goes to Congress. This is just adding to the debt because they can.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy: "People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries, and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability. This is adding to our national debt. If there needs to be a settlement, the administration should bring it to Congress to decide."
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