Insider frets GOP endangered its own spending bill by adding 'huge distraction' to it

President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, long touted as being funded exclusively with taxpayer money, could now potentially get a $1 billion boost from Senate Republicans, as a provision for it was slipped into their new reconciliation bill that's meant to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the remainder of Trump's term.

But privately, some Republican aides are griping that this just kicks a hornet's nest that is going to make the whole thing harder to pass, reported Semafor on Wednesday.