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Official title: Reconciliation (Executive Session)
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May 19, 2026
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, that brings me to the Republicans' reconciliation bill.
gas, healthcare, and childcare, Senate Republicans have spent their time trying to salvage a plan to force taxpayers to fund Donald Trump's gilded ballroom.
Democrats stopped Republicans' first attempt. Now, Republicans have a choice. Republicans can drop this ballroom boondoggle because Democrats exposed it and the public saw it for exactly what it was, or Republicans can keep this boondoggle in the bill.
on it on the Senate floor. Republicans do not—do not—get to hide from this.
Americans can barely afford to keep a roof over their own heads. They should not be forced to pay for a golden roof over Trump's head.
billion dollars, a million dollars, or a single dollar. Every penny of taxpayer money for Donald Trump's vanity project is a penny too much, and Senate Democrats will fight to make sure not one penny of Americans' money is used for it.
The ballroom is the perfect symbol of this Republican budget bill: Republicans focused on all the wrong things.
agents, uncontrolled raids, and unaccountable police forces. The Republican bill still does nothing—nothing—to lower grocery costs, lower rent, lower gas prices, lower healthcare costs.
So let Republicans rewrite the text. Let them change the number. Let them try to hide the ballroom after they got caught. The truth will not change.
Donald Trump sees Americans' money as his money. He somehow thinks he is entitled to reach into the
Republicans are writing the check. Democrats are saying: Hell no.