In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, congressional lawmakers have begun offering their official policy reaction and so far it all points in one direction: building Trump’s ballroom.

Within hours of the shooting, several GOP lawmakers from both the House and Senate announced they would introduce legislation to approve the project, which has stalled amid legal challenges. On Monday, at least five different proposals to build the ballroom were floating around Capitol Hill.

On the House side, Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Randy Fine (R-FL) have announced separate plans to introduce legislation to authorize the ballroom. On the Senate side, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Katie Britt (R-AL), and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) are backing legislation to appropriate at least $400 million to build the ballroom. Sens. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) are expected to introduce their own separate bills on the topic as well.

In a show of bipartisanship, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has also called for the ballroom to be built after the shooting.

The president’s ballroom proposal has been the subject of a legal challenge from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which has argued the project needs congressional approval. District Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, has halted the construction project as the legal case plays out.

Paul, who has at times broken from Trump on key issues, said in a statement he will introduce legislation on Tuesday to allow the construction to “proceed without new taxpayer costs and make it easier for Congress to review major White House projects going forward.”

Fine told the Washington Examiner during a brief interview that after Saturday’s attack, “if it wasn’t clear before, it should be clear to everyone that the president needs a secure place to have large events.”

The Florida Republican said his bill, titled the “Build the Ballroom Act,” would preempt lawsuits against the ballroom and make it explicit that the president has statutory authority to construct the ballroom on White House grounds.

Meanwhile, Boebert, while saying she does not believe congressional approval is needed for the project, said she would introduce the legislation “if it’ll keep activist judges on the sideline.”

Trump has said his proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, which is expected to cost $400 million to construct, cannot be “built fast enough” in the aftermath of the shooting.

“What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. “This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough! While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is plus, there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House.”

Trump has previously stated the ballroom’s construction would be funded by private donors and not the American taxpayer. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) told reporters on Monday no funding would be included for the project in a party-line budget reconciliation bill focused on funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, despite calls from Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) to do so.

However, Graham told reporters Monday that the legislation he was introducing alongside Britt and Schmitt would seek to authorize $400 million for the ballroom’s construction. Graham said the money would come from customs fees levied on imports. The South Carolina Republican is calling on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to expedite the legislation.

The ballroom focus marks a stark departure from how Congress responded when Trump was shot in 2024 at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That assassination attempt triggered bipartisan calls for accountability, the creation of a special congressional task force to investigate what went wrong, and, eventually, the resignation of the director of the Secret Service.

The difference is partially attributed to the fact that the White House and Trump have been quick to praise Secret Service for stopping the threat in real time.

“The president was satisfied with the response and he’s very grateful to the men and women who provided the response for him and his wife and members of his team,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday during a press briefing.

Trump, Vice President JD Vance, members of Trump’s Cabinet, and congressional lawmakers were rushed from the Washington Hilton Saturday night after several gunshots were heard outside the hotel’s ballroom, where the event was taking place.

The suspected shooter, who wrote in an alleged manifesto that he was targeting members of the Trump administration, has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of California. He has been charged by the Justice Department on multiple counts, including attempting to assassinate the president, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

It’s not clear if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will bring a bill to authorize the ballroom project to the House floor. However, he has voiced support for the ballroom, saying during a Fox News interview that a ballroom on the White House grounds would be a “safe environment” to hold large events.

“It won’t have hotel rooms above it, and it will have 7-inch-thick glass, for example, on the windows,” Johnson said. “So it’ll be a very safe environment to do events like this. We need a place, we have needed a place like [that], and the president keeps pointing it out.”

It’s unlikely the White House ballroom will receive significant Democratic support beyond Fetterman, who announced his backing on Sunday morning.

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“We were there front and center,” Fetterman posted on X. “That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), however, called the ballroom a “vanity project that resulted from the destruction that was unauthorized of the East Wing of the White House.”