President Trump just opened the Rose Garden two nights ago, and he invited me to dinner there,” White told the “Boardroom Talks” podcast earlier this week. “The amount of gnats that were flying around.

Senate Republicans were weighing on Wednesday whether to remove all or part of $1 billion for White House security funding from their $70 billion party-line immigration enforcement bill over concerns about President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-built East Wing ballroom.