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  "path": "/newswire/senate-republicans-pander-to-trump-in-reconciliation-bill-throwing-billions-more-to-ice-and-trumps-tacky-ballroom",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-05T17:28:17.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The Senate Judiciary Committee released its reconciliation bill, tacking $1 billion for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project and $70 billion for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).\n\n**Public Citizen Co-President Lisa Gilbert** issued the following statement:\n\n“The idea of using a simple majority process to fund billions more in ICE cruelty is abhorrent, but now the Senate has piled corrupt absurdity on top of that inhumane move, by adding in 1 billion dollars to fund the grandiose, bombastic, vanity project—the golden White House ballroom. Using taxpayer dollars to toady to a wannabe-dictator is both pandering and pathetic.”",
  "title": "Senate Republicans Pander to Trump in Reconciliation Bill, Throwing Billions More to ICE and Trump’s Tacky Ballroom"
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