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Exclusive: A detailed project summary of the ballroom prepared for the White House by a contractor estimated the total construction cost at $600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers, according to a copy obtained by The Post. wapo.st/4vRSidG

Confirmation hearing: Hal Duncan, nominee to be Deputy White House Budget Director testifies at @SenateBudget @BudgetGOP – LIVE on C-SPAN c-span.org/event/senate-c…

Confirmation hearing: Hal Duncan, nominee to be Deputy White House Budget Director testifies at @SenateBudget @BudgetGOP – LIVE on C-SPAN c-span.org/event/senate-c…

Confirmation hearing: Hal Duncan, nominee to be Deputy White House Budget Director testifies at @SenateBudget @BudgetGOP – LIVE on C-SPAN c-span.org/event/senate-c…

Confirmation hearing: Hal Duncan, nominee to be Deputy White House Budget Director testifies at @SenateBudget @BudgetGOP – LIVE on C-SPAN c-span.org/event/senate-c…

SCOOP: Senior House Republicans raised a politically explosive idea for their third GOP reconciliation bill in a private leadership meeting yesterday: Adding more partisan pieces of the regular government funding process in the party-line package Inside the meeting in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office, Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, an appropriator himself, suggested the idea as a way to bypass Dems and get more GOP priorities into the bill It would not only infuriate Democrats and further roil the already muddled government funding fight, it’s already unsettling some Republican appropriators who are wary of further eroding Congress’ power to oversee federal spending on a bipartisan basis. Speaker Johnson acknowledged in an interview last night that the appropriations idea “came up today” but added, “I'm not committing to anything. There are lots of ideas on the table.” Majority Leader Steve Scalise cautioned the entire process is still in flux: “We're far from agreement on 3.0.” PLUS — House GOP leaders don’t know if they have enough votes to pass the long-stuck recon 2.0 later today @chiproytx told us he whipped as undecided last night on Republicans’ immigration enforcement bill - which House GOP leaders are trying to push through this afternoon “We’re literally bending over backwards just to get back to the status quo and to remove people that are just going to come back in four years under the next administration, because we’re not codifying anything,” Roy said. And, Rep. Kevin Kiley, an independent member of the GOP conference, said he’d oppose the bill: “I’ve made clear I will not support it unless reforms have been enacted and that position hasn’t changed,” he told us. Attendance and other Rs on the watchlist are also problems w/ @Reporter_Mia @riley_rogerson politi.co/43VP3ps via @politico

Vote-A-Rama amendment list, as of 4:50pm, obtained by me/ @scrippsnews: