2026-05-20 19:43:21 UTC / 路透社
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2026年5月20日 美国东部时间晚上7:43 更新于13分钟前
美国路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪2026年5月19日出席在华盛顿特区国会山举行的参议院小组委员会会议，讨论美国司法部2027财年预算提案。路透社/伊夫林·霍克斯坦 购买授权
华盛顿，5月20日（路透社）——美国共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪周三表示，参议院内部对拨款10亿美元用于计划中的白宫舞厅及相关安保措施的支持不足，该提案不会被纳入一项720亿美元的移民执法法案。
在离开共和党参议员会议后对记者发表讲话时，来自路易斯安那州的肯尼迪表示：“我们被告知情况就是这样，再说一遍，我还没看过法案文本，但我们得知舞厅相关拨款已经被排除在外。”
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参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩对记者表示，他所在的53名共和党议员正试图解决“几个棘手问题”。“我认为问题与东翼翻新项目有关，”他说道。
唐纳德·特朗普总统已下令拆除白宫东翼，将其改建为一座9万平方英尺的舞厅，他称该舞厅最多可容纳1000人就座。
特朗普最初曾表示该项目不会动用联邦资金。但这一说法数次变更，最终国会共和党人要求从纳税人资金中拨款10亿美元，他们称这笔资金将用于舞厅及特勤局其他项目的安保升级。
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图恩表示，其中一个悬而未决的问题是，即便舞厅项目取消，特勤局约7.8亿美元的额外拨款是否仍将保留。
过去几周，外界的关注焦点集中在民主党所称的特朗普“镀金虚荣项目”的联邦拨款争议上，而这笔720亿美元的国土安全部移民驱逐资金也在中期选举竞选拉开帷幕之际搅动了国会。
民主党人士认为国土安全部的资金已经充足，并要求对该部门的执法行动施加新的限制，这一要求遭到了共和党人的反对。
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US Republican senator says Trump ballroom funding removed from spending bill
2026-05-20 19:43:21 UTC / Reuters
By Richard Cowan
May 20, 2026 7:43 PM UTC Updated 13 mins ago
U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) attends a Senate subcommittee on the Justice Department’s proposed 2027 budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2026. REUTER/Evelyn Hockstein Purchase Licensing Rights
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Senator John Kennedy on Wednesday said there was insufficient support in the Senate to spend $1 billion on a planned White House ballroom and related security measures, and that the proposal would not be included in a $72 billion immigration enforcement bill.
Speaking to reporters after leaving a meeting of Republican senators, Kennedy, of Louisiana, said: “We were told that, and again, I haven’t looked at the text, but we’re told that the ballroom money is out.”
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters that there were “a couple snags” that his 53 Republicans were trying to iron out. “I think there are issues related to the East Wing modernization project,” he said.
President Donald Trump has had the East Wing of the White House demolished, to be replaced by a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that he says could seat up to 1,000 people.
Trump originally said the project would involve no federal funding. But that has changed several times, culminating in congressional Republicans seeking $1 billion in taxpayer money that they argued would provide security enhancements for the ballroom and other Secret Service projects.
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Thune said one of the unresolved issues was whether around $780 million in additional Secret Service spending would be maintained even if the ballroom was not going forward.
While the controversy of spending federal money on what Democrats call a “gilded vanity project” for Trump has been the focus of attention in the past few weeks, the $72 billion for Department of Homeland Security immigrant deportations has also been roiling Congress as the midterm election campaigns get underway.
Democrats argue that the DHS is already well funded and have demanded new restrictions on the department’s law enforcement operations, which Republicans have rejected.
Reporting by Richard Cowan, editing by Chris Reese and Deepa Babington
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