The Commission of Fine Arts gave its final blessing this week to a 250-foot neoclassical triumphal arch in Washington D.C., proving that aesthetic ambition is the only thing the administration will not default on. While 240,000 Department of Homeland Security employees enter their second week without pay, the Senate has prioritized a $1 billion luxury Secret Service infrastructure project at a new White House ballroom. This monumental obsession extends to the Treasury’s Judgment Fund, where Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has helped establish a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to compensate political allies. According to Axios, this fund turns a personal settlement into a government program that shields its spending from public scrutiny. Democratic senators have labeled the move a "slush fund" for Jan. 6 rioters, but for the administration, it is simply the cost of doing business. Read together, the $1.776 billion payout and the $1 billion ballroom reveal an administration that treats the Treasury as an inheritance; the causal link to the starving border guards, if it exists, is in no filing this paper has seen. We find it pristine that the government can afford a billion dollars in gold leaf for a monument while the help can't afford their mortgages.