Image: Construction of the White House ballroom seen from the East Room in Washington DC on Monday. Photograph: Abaca/Shutterstock

Anna Betts of The Guardian reports: “Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1 billion that could go to security measures related to the $400 million ballroom that is part of Donald Trump’s “East Wing modernization project”.

Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, released the funding plan on Monday, as part of a wider bill the Republican party plans to pass along party lines to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies involved in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts…”

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