A gunman pulled a weapon from his bag Saturday evening and opened fire on Secret Service agents at the White House gate – with Trump inside.
The next morning, Maxine Waters walked into a church in Inglewood with something to say about that building.
What she told that congregation is one of the most reckless thing a sitting member of Congress has said out loud.
Maxine Waters Vows to Vote Against White House Security Funding
Maxine Waters skipped honoring our war dead on Memorial Day weekend to use Sunday to rant about Donald Trump from a church pulpit in Inglewood, California.
The audio was malfunctioning badly enough that the crowd had to strain to hear her.
They heard enough.
Waters told the congregation she would vote against Trump's request to fund enhanced security for the East Wing of the White House – the same East Wing that Trump demolished last October to make way for a new ballroom – and declared flatly that the rebuilt structure "will never be rebuilt."
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The security money in question is $1 billion included in the Republican reconciliation bill, which covers Secret Service upgrades including bulletproof glass, hardened infrastructure for the new East Wing, and $150 million specifically to counter drones and airspace incursions.
New technology that would protect not just the White House but the entire Washington, DC airspace.
The White House said the funding is necessary.
Secret Service Director Sean Curran briefed Republican senators on the request in person.
The DHS made the case that two Trump assassination attempts and a gunfight outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month made the upgrades urgent.
Maxine Waters told a church she would vote no.
Democrats Move to Strip Secret Service Funding After White House Shooting
The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting happened April 25.
A gunman opened fire outside the venue with a shotgun and pistols, intending to kill Trump administration officials.
Three weeks later, Democrats were demanding the East Wing security money be stripped from the reconciliation bill on procedural grounds.
Chuck Schumer called it taxpayer money for a "gold-plated ballroom."
Sen. Jacky Rosen announced amendments to redirect the $1 billion elsewhere.
Now Waters has made it personal – standing before a congregation and pledging her own vote to block the funding while the body of Saturday night's shooter was still at the hospital.
The Standard Democrats Set and Then Abandoned
Democrats spent four years demanding Trump be held accountable for every word that left his mouth.
They impeached him twice.
The second impeachment rested entirely on the argument that a president's words could incite violence and endanger the safety of the Capitol building.
That was the standard they set – and Maxine Waters just stood in a California church and promised to vote against funding the security of the building where the President of the United States sleeps.
The White House East Wing Reconstruction and the Vote Democrats Are Planning
The East Wing was demolished in October 2025 to make way for Trump's 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
The security infrastructure – like every element of the White House – depends on congressional appropriations.
Waters has served in Congress since 1991 and knows exactly what she is promising.
Every Democrat who applauds this promise owns what it represents: a sitting member of Congress pledging, from a church pulpit, to leave the White House less secure because she hates the man inside it.
Nancy Pelosi said nothing.
Chuck Schumer, who is already working to strip the security funding on procedural grounds, has not put distance between himself and what Waters said from the pulpit.
Hakeem Jeffries, who runs the House Democrat caucus, has been silent.
They all want the same outcome.
Waters just said it out loud.
Maxine Waters Has a History of Inciting Confrontation Against Trump
This is not a first offense from a legislator who occasionally lets something slip.
In 2018, Waters told supporters at a Los Angeles rally to find Trump Cabinet members in public and "create a crowd."
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them," she said. "Tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
Nancy Pelosi asked her to consider the consequences of her words.
Waters kept going.
The judge in Derek Chauvin's murder trial criticized her by name after she traveled to Minnesota in April 2021 and told protesters outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department to "get more confrontational" if Chauvin was acquitted – comments Judge Peter Cahill called "disrespectful to the rule of law" and warned could provide Chauvin grounds for appeal.
Waters kept going then too.
Now she is pledging before God and congregation to vote against securing the home of the man she has spent eight years trying to destroy.
The remarkable thing is not that Maxine Waters said it.
It’s that no senior Democrat has told her to stop.
Sources:
- Breitbart News [@BreitbartNews], X (Twitter), May 25, 2026.
- Alexandra Koch and Michael Sinkewicz, "Gunshots heard outside White House, male suspect taken down by Secret Service," Fox News, May 23, 2026.
- Paul M. Krawzak, "White House ballroom security upgrades become Democratic target," Roll Call, May 8, 2026.
- Aris Folley, Jacob Fulton and Paul M. Krawzak, "Reconciliation bill punted until after Memorial Day recess," Roll Call, May 21, 2026.
- Alex Isenstadt, "Exclusive: How the White House is justifying its $1B East Wing ask," Axios, May 12, 2026.
