2026年4月29日 美国东部时间早上7:00 / 福克斯新闻
参议院议员格雷厄姆、布里特和施密特提出的法案将为这个4亿美元的项目买单，此前一名枪手试图闯入白宫记者协会晚宴现场
作者：亚历克斯·米勒 福克斯新闻
继周末第三起针对总统唐纳德·特朗普的暗杀企图被挫败后，一批参议院共和党议员打算斥资数亿美元为特朗普的白宫舞厅提供资金。
南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆、阿拉巴马州共和党参议员凯蒂·布里特以及密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特计划推出一项法案，为政府修建这座舞厅解锁4亿美元资金。
这实际上将由国会为特朗普的舞厅买单。该项目最初预计耗资约1亿美元，但自宣布以来的几个月里，成本已飙升至4亿美元。此前议员们对特朗普去年宣布计划在东翼旧址修建舞厅一事持回避态度，而这项法案出台之际，共和党对该舞厅的支持正迎来新的浪潮。
共和党紧急为特勤局筹措资金，特朗普遇刺未遂事件引发创纪录停摆
2026年3月3日，南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦参加特朗普政府官员就美国对伊朗打击举行的简报会后对记者发言。（内森·波斯纳/安纳多卢通讯社 摄）
但此次新的推动源于周六一名枪手试图闯入座无虚席的华盛顿希尔顿舞厅，当时特朗普、副总统JD·万斯及其内阁成员以及数百名记者正在那里参加白宫记者协会晚宴。
“如果这还不算警钟，那也应该算是了，”格雷厄姆说道。
他们的法案将利用进口关税为该舞厅买单，而特朗普和白宫此前曾宣称该舞厅将完全由外部捐赠资助。
特朗普第三次遭遇暗杀恐慌后，共和党火速批准修建白宫舞厅
总统唐纳德·特朗普在空军一号媒体采访中展示白宫舞厅的效果图。（曼德尔·恩/法新社 摄）
参议院民主党人是否支持该计划仍是未知数。
“我不明白，为什么不管一项提议本身好坏与否，只要和唐纳德·特朗普有关，民主党人就选择反对，”布里特说道。
部分民主党议员呼吁提供更多关于周六事件的详细信息。
“‘哦，希尔顿发生了这种事，那我们就往舞厅砸几百万美元好了’——这种想法在我看来很奇怪，”弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员蒂姆·凯恩说道。“我们先彻底查明事件经过以及解决方案是什么。”
另有其他人认为，白宫在拆除东翼并启动舞厅建设之前，应该先提交国会审议。
早在特朗普2亿美元舞厅项目之前，白宫翻新工程就早已引发争议
“我们需要一座舞厅吗？这个问题我们可以讨论，包括它的外观设计等等，”内华达州民主党参议员杰基·罗森在接受《新闻国家》采访时表示。“这和唐纳德·特朗普无关。这真的关乎安全。关乎安全。我认为这项工程应该经过正当的国会程序。”
该法案实际上能为政府一举两得：既可以通过国会批准，打破阻碍施工的禁令，也能缓解外界对这座耗资巨大、占地9万平方英尺的镀金舞厅存在利益输送的批评。
格雷厄姆希望参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩加快推进该法案，尽快将其提交参议院全院投票，但也愿意将该法案纳入即将出台的预算和解方案，用于为特朗普剩余任期内的移民行动提供资金。
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图恩表示，参议院目前正专注于为国土安全部提供资金，但他指出，他认同相关论点，即特朗普以及未来的总统需要在白宫随时拥有一处安全的活动场所。
“显然，我们政府有切身利益需要确保保护好我们的领导人，比如总统、副总统以及他们的内阁成员，他们在昨晚都成了袭击目标，”图恩说道。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的记者。
Republicans eye picking up $400M tab for Trump’s ballroom as some Dems open to ‘discuss’ idea
April 29, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News
The bill from Sens Graham, Britt and Schmitt would pay for the $400 million project after a gunman tried to enter the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
By Alex Miller Fox News
A cohort of Senate Republicans wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fund President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom after a third assassination attempt was foiled over the weekend.
Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., plan to introduce legislation that would unlock $400 million for the administration to construct the ballroom.
It would effectively see Congress cover the tab for Trump’s ballroom, which initially was projected to cost around $100 million but has ballooned to $400 million in the months since it was announced. Their bill comes on the heels of a new tidal wave of support from the GOP for the ballroom, which lawmakers previously had kept at arm’s length after Trump announced plans last year to build it where the East Wing once stood.
REPUBLICANS SCRAMBLE TO FUND SECRET SERVICE AFTER TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AMID RECORD-BREAKING SHUTDOWN
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters after a briefing by Trump administration officials on U.S. strikes on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2026.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu)
But the new push was spurred when a gunman on Saturday attempted to enter the packed Washington Hilton ballroom, where Trump, Vice President JD Vance and his Cabinet, along with hundreds of journalists, were attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“If this is not a wake-up call, well, it should be,” Graham said.
Their bill would use customs fees on imports to pay for the ballroom, which Trump and the White House previously touted as being entirely funded by outside donations.
REPUBLICANS RUSH TO GREEN-LIGHT WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM FOLLOWING THIRD TRUMP ASSASSINATION SCARE
President Donald Trump holds a rendering of the White House ballroom in an Air Force One media scrum.(Mandel Ngan/AFP)
Whether Senate Democrats support the plan is an open question.
“I don’t understand why it is that every idea, it doesn’t matter if on its face is good or not, Democrats choose to oppose it if it has anything to do with Donald Trump,” Britt said.
Some Democrats are calling for more information on what exactly happened on Saturday.
“The notion of, ‘Oh, this thing happened at Hilton, so let’s just throw millions of dollars at a ballroom,’ I mean, that strikes me as odd,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said. “Let’s get to the bottom of what happened and what the solutions are.”
Others argue that the White House should have come to Congress first before moving ahead with the demolition of the East Wing and construction of the ballroom.
WHITE HOUSE MAKEOVERS HAVE LONG SPARKED CONTROVERSY, WELL BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP’S $200M BALLROOM
“Do we need a ballroom? Well, that, we can discuss that, what it looks like and all of that,” Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., told NewsNation. “This isn’t about Donald Trump. It is really about safety. It’s really about safety. I think it should have gone through the right congressional process.”
The legislation would effectively kill two birds with one stone for the administration — provide both congressional approval to blast through an injunction that has stymied construction, and alleviate criticisms of influence peddling for donors to the lavish, 90,000-square-foot gilded ballroom.
Graham wants Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to expedite the bill and swiftly get it onto the Senate floor for a vote but is open to throwing the legislation into the forthcoming budget reconciliation package to fund immigration operations for the remainder of Trump’s presidency.
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Thune said that the Senate is currently focused on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but noted that he agreed with the argument that Trump and future presidents need a secure facility for events readily available at the White House.
“And, obviously, there’s a vested stake, I think, in our government in ensuring that we protect our leaders, like the president, and the vice president, his Cabinet, all of them are targeted the other night,” Thune said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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