00:00While Americans are getting crushed by the cost of rent, groceries, gas, health care, child care,
00:07Senate Republicans have spent their time trying to salvage a plan to force taxpayers to fund Donald Trump's gilded ballroom.
00:17Democrats stopped Republicans' first attempt.
00:20Now Republicans have a choice.
00:23Republicans can drop this ballroom boondoggle because Democrats exposed it and the public saw it for exactly what it was.
00:33Or Republicans can keep this boondoggle in the bill.
00:37Either way, Democrats will make sure they will have a chance to vote on it on the Senate floor.
00:44Republicans do not, do not get to hide from this.
00:48Americans can barely afford to keep a roof over their own heads.
00:52They should not be forced to pay for a golden roof over Trump's head.
00:56And to be very clear, I don't care if the Republicans ask for a billion dollars, a million dollars, or
01:02a single dollar.
01:03Every penny of taxpayer money for Donald Trump's vanity project is a penny too much.
01:10And Senate Democrats will fight to make sure not one penny of Americans' money is used for it.
01:17The ballroom is the perfect symbol of this Republican budget bill.
01:23Republicans focused on all the wrong things.
01:27This bill still pours tens of billions of dollars into Trump's masked agents, uncontrolled raids, unaccountable police forces.
01:35Republicans' bills, the Republican bill still does nothing, nothing, to lower grocery costs, lower rent, lower gas prices, lower health
01:45care costs.
01:46That is the contrast.
01:48Democrats fighting to lower costs.
01:51Republicans fighting to launder Trump's corruption through the federal budget.
01:57So let Republicans rewrite the text.
01:59Let them change the number.
02:01Let them try to hide the ballroom after they got caught.
02:04The truth will not change.
02:08Donald Trump sees Americans' money as his money.
02:12He somehow thinks he's entitled to reach into the average American family's pockets,
02:17take the money out of their pockets, and put it in his own.
02:22It's incredible.
02:24Republicans are writing the check.
02:26Democrats are saying hell no.
02:29Take a look at this section.
02:32Different facade.
02:34This is a Greek.
02:38More or less, it comes out of Greece.
02:40This is the ultimate facade for Greece.
02:44This faces the Treasury Building.
02:46This faces, this is a different facade.
02:48That's Rome.
02:49And that faces the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, et cetera.
02:55So you have two facades.
02:57Primarily, you have two entrances.
02:59You have here, you have here.
03:01But the primary entrance is through the White House, directly through the White House.
03:05And it's really something.
03:07I think you can see the complexity.
03:09All of these columns go directly up to the roof.
03:11And the roof is a barrier.
03:14It's a shield.
03:15Because it's made out of the sidewalls of steel, impenetrable steel, and also impenetrable glass.
03:24The glass is approximately four inches thick.
03:28And yet it's amazing.
03:29You can see through it as though it didn't exist.
03:31It's amazing.
03:32And it can stop just about anything.
03:36Just about anything.
03:37On the other side of the glass, we have steel and concrete.
03:41So that the glass is very powerful.
03:45What's holding the glass is equally as powerful.
03:48And that's here.
03:49And you can see they're just about ready to go up to the top.
03:52All of these columns, they go directly right to the roof of the building.
03:56And again, we call it a drone port.
03:58It's set up for unlimited numbers of drones.
04:03Purposely, we don't have any air conditioning equipment up there.
04:06Because we don't want anything coming down through the pipes if anybody gets.
04:11Normally, you'd have a lot of air conditioning equipment on the roof.
04:14We built it all inside the building.
04:17Inside the case of the building.
04:19Because we don't want to have anything having to do with air or air quality or any problems playing with
04:24the air.
04:25So you'll notice it's a dead flat roof with no equipment on it.
04:30All of the equipment is inside of the building.
04:34And that's for safety reasons.
04:36Normally, you'd do it a lot less expensive if you do it a different way.
04:39So all of this was paid for by myself.
04:42And because I keep hearing, like, we are making a gift of this.
04:47This is a gift.
04:48This is not going to be paid for by the taxpayer.
04:51We have a judge that thinks it's a terrible thing that we're making a gift.
04:55He said, it's terrible that we're making a gift that should be paid for by the taxpayer.
04:59That's one I've never heard before.
05:01I'm sure maybe, I don't know, maybe he doesn't understand.
05:03This is a gift to the United States of America.
05:07And more than a gift, it's going to be one of the most beautiful buildings that's ever been built in
05:13the country or in Washington, D.C.
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