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Senate Republicans have stripped $1 billion for security upgrades to President Trump’s White House ballroom from a revised budget reconciliation bill.

Getting into it: The revised text, released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, drops the funding that Trump had personally lobbied senators for over several weeks, making it a notable setback for the president. While Trump has insisted private donors will foot the roughly $400 million tab for the 90,000-square-foot ballroom itself, his administration wanted Congress to fund Secret Service security for the project, with officials pegging the ballroom’s share at around $200 million and earmarking the balance for other Secret Service work. The administration had argued the money became urgent after a gunman tried to force his way into April’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

Republicans concluded the request was more trouble than it was worth, and leadership quietly judged the money a liability for the much larger immigration package on both political and procedural fronts. Some senators worried that voting taxpayer money for the ballroom would make the party look tone-deaf as Americans grapple with high gas prices tied to the Iran war ahead of the November midterms. On top of that, the Senate parliamentarian had ruled that the ballroom money violated the Byrd Rule, meaning it couldn’t pass through the simple-majority reconciliation process Republicans are relying on.

The ballroom wasn’t the only Trump priority to fall away, as Republicans also dropped his $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which critics in both parties derided as a “slush fund” for the president’s allies and pardoned January 6 rioters. The fund triggered a blowup at a pre-recess luncheon where, according to Senator Ted Cruz, Republicans “screamed at” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after he wouldn’t say whether convicted rioters would be eligible for payouts, prompting Mitch McConnell to call the idea “utterly stupid.”

This all comes as Republicans race to pass the roughly $70 billion measure funding ICE and Customs and Border Protection through 2029, a workaround they turned to after Democrats refused to fund the agencies following the killing of two US citizens during a January immigration operation in Minneapolis, a standoff that dragged the Department of Homeland Security into a partial shutdown that lasted weeks.

Republicans blew past Trump’s June 1 deadline to get the bill to his desk, and Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have vowed to fight the remaining package “with every tool we have.”