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President Donald Trump is squeezing Republicans to do his bidding on the ballroom.<\/p>\n

White House officials are pushing Republicans in Congress to approve $1 billion in security enhancements for Trump\u2019s<\/a> ballroom on grounds that it would be bad optics for private donors to pay for the presidential bunker underneath, according to two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The White House has said the ballroom itself has been paid for by donors like tech giants Apple, Meta, and Amazon<\/a>, but there has been concern about these companies or rich donors effectively sponsoring a bunker.<\/p>\n

The proposed security measures for the East Wing broadly fall into two buckets, the people say: the below-ground bunker and above-ground elements that plan to include bulletproof glass and a roof that hides a counteroffensive drone port<\/a> and rocket launchers.<\/p>\n

The bunker is under construction for now with money Congress appropriated last year for White House security, the people say, but that funding from last year is not expected to cover all of the proposed security measures that Trump wants for the construction.<\/p>\n

If the $1 billion is not approved, Trump\u2019s aides have warned lawmakers there may have to be cutbacks to the proposed security measures at a time that Trump has faced repeated attempts on his life, according to a Republican leadership source.<\/p>\n

The White House does need security upgrades. For instance, while Congress installed hardened windows<\/a> after the January 6 Capitol riot, the shoot-out<\/a> between a gunman and secret service agents in front of the White House over the weekend revived concerns that part of the West Wing wasn\u2019t appropriately secure.<\/p>\n

Still, in conversations with WIRED, lawmakers have privately grumbled that the reason the White House is now in need of money for a bunker is because Trump ripped out the existing one when he bulldozed the East Wing last year without first securing funding from Congress.<\/p>\n

As a result, the White House has now off-loaded the bunker problem of Trump\u2019s own making onto Congress.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s aides privately acknowledge that Republicans are in a tough spot because the idea of giving the president $1 billion for a construction project while the Iran war continues and gas prices remain high remains politically toxic.<\/p>\n

But there is little sympathy from the White House. \u201cRepublicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,\u201d said one Trump aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to relay the White House\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n

That is in large part because there are few priorities as close to Trump\u2019s heart as his ballroom. In recent days and weeks, he has been poring over renderings and tinkering with design details for the building, say two people familiar with his level of interest.<\/p>\n

Lately, Trump has been fixated on the White House complex\u2019s exterior. Over the weekend, as the US passed notes back and forth<\/a> with mediators to strike a preliminary deal to end the Iran war, the president was spotted inspecting the columns<\/a> outside the White House residence.<\/p>\n

Trump decided months ago that he wants Corinthian columns<\/a> for the East Wing, which feature highly decorative acanthus leaves and spirals at the top of the fluted shafts, compared to the simpler spirals of Ionic columns that are on the residence.<\/p>\n

In a statement, White House spokesperson David Ingle defended the funding as necessary for the Secret Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe money in this bill will be used for a host of reasons, which include but are not limited to, hardening security for the White House complex, additional protection for protectees, the Special Operations Division, training, and extra security for high-profile events of national significance,\u201d says Davis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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