{"id":17840,"date":"2026-05-05T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/republicans-ask-for-1-billion-in-tax-payer-funding-for-trumps-ballroom-in-the-latest-reconciliation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:56:27","slug":"republicans-ask-for-1-billion-in-tax-payer-funding-for-trumps-ballroom-in-the-latest-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/republicans-ask-for-1-billion-in-tax-payer-funding-for-trumps-ballroom-in-the-latest-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans ask for $1 billion in tax-payer funding for Trump\u2019s ballroom in the latest reconciliation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit found gold today and we&#8217;re sharing the wealth.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/ABkpkmFBPH5jrNm7BQJ5le9fYJHMIufDt7bGfbd6QAs.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=e27fee99f549f2f9be8fe9401ca5acd14bbfb3ee\" alt=\"Republicans ask for $1 billion in tax-payer funding for Trump\u2019s ballroom in the latest reconciliation bill--it was originally supposed to cost $400 million from funding by private donors\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>The comments section is going to be interesting on this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1t4j1rn\/republicans_ask_for_1_billion_in_taxpayer_funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit found gold today and we&#8217;re sharing the wealth. The comments section is going to be interesting on this one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1t4j1rn\/republicans_ask_for_1_billion_in_taxpayer_funding\/","_sweary_views":10792,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}