The White House is ramping up its sales pitch for security funding related to President Donald Trump’s ballroom project, but the administration is struggling for now to squash skepticism among Senate Republicans.
Secret Service Director Sean Curran met with GOP senators at a closed-door lunch Tuesday and walked through a $1 billion funding request for his agency, providing a handout to GOP senators breaking down the funding.
Several lawmakers said afterward they needed more details.
“There are still a lot of questions,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said after the lunch, summing up the feelings of many of his GOP colleagues.
The document given to…
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