India, April 28 -- A shooting outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday has added fresh urgency to President Donald Trump's new ballroom at the White House project. Now, a group of Senate Republicans are pushing a bill to fund it saying that the project is no longer just about prestige but about national security.

Senator Lindsey Graham, who is one of Trump's closest allies in Congress is now leading a push to get the ballroom built.

Graham has teamed up with Senators Katie Britt (R-AL) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) to introduce a bill that would authorize the construction of a 90,000-square-foot presidential ballroom on the White House grounds, with a military complex and a Secret Service annex built beneath it for use in em...