Tillis urges GOP colleagues to hold budget bill over White House ballroom funding
Senate Tillis urges GOP colleagues to hold budget bill over White House ballroom funding Comments: by Alexander Bolton - 05/18/26 10:11 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Alexander Bolton - 05/18/26 10:11 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen. And he vowed to oppose any reconciliation package that comes to the floor this week. In an email memo circulated to Republican senators, Tillis expressed his disappointment in Sen.
- ▪Senate Tillis urges GOP colleagues to hold budget bill over White House ballroom funding Comments: by Alexander Bolton - 05/18/26 10:11 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Alexander Bolton - 05/18/26 10:11 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING
- ▪And he vowed to oppose any reconciliation package that comes to the floor this week.
- ▪In an email memo circulated to Republican senators, Tillis expressed his disappointment in Sen.
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Senate Tillis urges GOP colleagues to hold budget bill over White House ballroom funding Comments: by Alexander Bolton - 05/18/26 10:11 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Alexander Bolton - 05/18/26 10:11 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is urging his Senate Republican colleagues to delay action on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, in part because he said a proposal to spend $1 billion on the White House ballroom is “a major policy problem.” He threatened to vote no on the budget reconciliation bill, which would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, citing the ballroom funding provision in its current form.
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