Secret Service Pushes For Security Funding As GOP Questions Ballroom Costs

The Secret Service is making a forceful case for increased security funding even as Republican lawmakers express unease over the cost of a new ballroom at a federal facility, raising questions about priorities and taxpayer value. The agency argues that robust protection for top officials and key sites is nonnegotiable in today’s threat environment, but critics on the right see the ballroom as a symbol of bureaucratic excess and misplaced spending. Read more about this...