cheeto is collecting a long list of derogatory nicknames well earned. now his golden fabulous ballroom is getting the lack of funds it so sorely needs. not as much as the trump/kennedy cultural center to be sure. this president bigly show is getting tiresome; 

 

President Donald Trump wanted $1 billion in taxpayer-backed security money tied to his new White House ballroom-turned-military bastion, a project he once vowed to finance privately. The Senate parliamentarian spoiled the plan by advising that the provision could not ride through a budget reconciliation bill as drafted without facing a 60-vote threshold.

So Trump did what Trump does. He turned a rules dispute into a loyalty test. He attacked a Senate official by name, demanded her removal, and told Republicans to kill the filibuster before they all lose their jobs.

The result was revealing. The ballroom money did not just run into Democratic opposition. It ran into Republicans who could read the room.

By Wednesday evening, Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said the money was out. “We were told that, and again, I haven’t looked at the text, but we’re told that the ballroom money is out,” he told reporters after a GOP meeting.

The Parliamentarian Blocks the Path

At the center of the fight is Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian. Her job is procedural. She advises the Senate on whether provisions fit within chamber rules, including the strict rules that govern reconciliation bills.........more........