Sullivan votes against Trump’s ballroom and compensation fund

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan at the Alaska State Capitol in February.
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has been silent for weeks on President Trump’s controversial plan to spend public funds on a White House ballroom and his nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund, to help people Trump deems victims of political prosecutions.
Sullivan took a position Thursday. He voted to block those Trump priorities, supporting Democratic amendments. They failed, but for a senator running for reelection with Trump’s