Senate Republican on Trump ballroom push: 'We have $39 trillion of debt'

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Source: The Hill

04/28/26 8:11 AM ET


Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is pushing back on a proposal to spend as much as $400 million in taxpayer money to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, arguing that Congress needs to rein in its deficit spending at a time of historically high national debt.

Scott told NBC News on Monday evening that the project should be paid for with private funding only. “I don’t know why you would do it” with taxpayer money “if it’s all funded,” Scott told NBC News. “We have $39 trillion in debt,” he said. “Maybe we ought to stop spending money.”

Scott supports construction of a White House ballroom but he doesn’t want taxpayers to pay for it.

“We need the ballroom and Democrats need to get over their Trump Derangement Syndrome and stop holding it up. We don’t need tax dollars for it because the project is already paid for with private funds,” Scott told The Hill in a statement. “Let’s get this done — no one can argue there isn’t a critical, immediate need,” he said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5852331-rick-scott-trump-ballroom-national-debt/

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Forked tongue Scott.



Where are all the teabaggers?

[Lovie777]

1. He's concerned......

[Justice matters.]

2. They're all dead with no healthcare...

[Deminpenn]

3. Wasn't this ballroom supposed to built using private donations?

Why, suddently, are we taxpayers being asked to foot the bill?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. It was all a ruse.

[Deminpenn]

5. Did all those donations (there was a partial list posted on DU)

end up in Trump's pocket?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I expect that may be in some escrow account

But I had noticed that the draft Congressional legislation said something like "up to $400 million", so taxpayers would probably foot the difference (which would be significant since he is also fundraising for his obscene library).

[travelingthrulife]

9. Because the shooter, whom they knew nothing about and don't say they did,

created the situation pretending it was for security. ALL Republicans within minutes after the shooting were posting about the security needs making a ballroom essential. It was a set-up. Don't know if they paid this guy or if they just knew he was coming, but it was a set-up.

[LeftInTX]

7. More than one

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5853917-trump-ballroom-funding-controversy/

[travelingthrulife]

8. Rand Paul is for the grift and Rick Scott, infamous fraudster, is against it?