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GOP weighs scrubbing White House security funding from immigration bill over ballroom controversy
Senate Republicans were weighing on Wednesday whether to remove all or part of $1 billion for White House security funding from their $70 billion party-line immigration enforcement bill over concerns about President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-built East Wing ballroom. The considera
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