Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday said she will fight efforts to use taxpayer money to pay for the massive ballroom President Donald Trump’s trying to have built on the White House grounds.
Reporter Pablo Manríquez of MeidasTouch asked Ocasio-Cortez about a new push this week by Republican lawmakers to provide taxpayer money for the $400 million project.
“Hell no,” she said.
Trump has said the ballroom wouldn’t cost taxpayers a penny. But after the shooting at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, some GOP lawmakers have been pushing for taxpayers to fund it instead, claiming it will keep the president safe.
Ocasio-Cortez isn’t buying it.
