{"id":311,"date":"2026-06-05T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:07:07","slug":"sullivan-votes-against-trumps-ballroom-and-compensation-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan votes against Trump\u2019s ballroom and compensation fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has been silent for weeks on President Trump\u2019s controversial plan to spend public funds on a White House ballroom and his nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund, to help people he deems victims of political prosecutions.<\/p>\n

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Sullivan took a position Thursday. He voted to block those Trump priorities, supporting Democratic amendments. They failed. Still, for a senator running for reelection with Trump\u2019s endorsement, Sullivan\u2019s decision to declare an objection to things Trump wants is noteworthy.<\/p>\n

The Alaska senator was among just three Republicans to vote for an amendment<\/u> by Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to forbid the Justice Department from creating the compensation fund.<\/p>\n

Then Sullivan and five other Republicans voted to bar construction of the White House ballroom<\/u>, using public or private dollars, unless Congress grants specific authorization for it.<\/p>\n

Sullivan did not respond to an interview request but his office issued a statement about Trump\u2019s proposal to put $1.776 billion in what critics call a \u201cslush fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter learning more about the anti-weaponization fund, Senator Sullivan concluded that he did not support the fund. Senator Sullivan\u2019s votes reflect that,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cFurther, the [acting] Attorney General of the United States also testified recently that the fund was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mixed messages are coming from the Trump administration on this. Trump on Wednesday called the fund \u201ca beautiful thing\u201d<\/u> and said he wasn\u2019t sure if the idea was dead or on hold.<\/p>\n

Sullivan\u2019s Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, also declined an interview request but her campaign issued a statement accusing Sullivan of taking \u201cpolitically expedient votes on legislation that won\u2019t pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

None of the amendments was expected to pass. They were part of what\u2019s known semi-officially<\/u> as a vote-arama. These marathon sessions offer the minority party \u2014 Democrats now \u2014 the rare opportunity to file a stream of amendments and bring them all to the Senate floor. Vote-aramas are generally used to make incumbents take uncomfortable votes that sometimes come back to haunt them in their next election.<\/p>\n

For Sullivan, that\u2019s this year.<\/p>\n

When members of the majority party cross the aisle to vote for amendments in a vote-arama, it\u2019s often those who are in tight races. The other two Republicans who joined Sullivan on the Schumer amendment are, according to the Cook Political Report<\/u>, this November\u2019s most endangered GOP senators: Susan Collins of Maine and Jon Husted of Ohio.<\/p>\n

Cook rates Sullivan\u2019s race as \u201cleans Republican,\u201d though his votes for Democratic amendments \u2014 and against the president he typically aligns with \u2014 suggest he may be feeling the heat, too.<\/p>\n

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