{"id":1046914,"date":"2026-09-06T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1046914\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:56:28","slug":"dallas-not-expected-to-be-on-the-hook-for-gop-costs-fundraiser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1046914\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas not expected to be \u2018on the hook\u2019 for GOP costs, fundraiser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas developer Ray Washburne, co-chair of the Dallas Host Committee, said on NBC5\u2019s Lone Star Politics Sunday that he does not expect the city to be left with a bill from the Republican convention. The host committee says it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-midterm-convention-45-million-fundraising-22391984.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> raised $45 million in private donations<\/a> to help stage the two-day event starting Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRIVATE MONEY:<\/strong> Washburne said the host committee, Republican National Committee and other organizers will pick up most of the\u00a0costs of the\u00a0convention-style rally featuring President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CITY SHARE:<\/strong> Dallas officials have\u00a0estimated the city\u00a0will spend $2.5 million on security and other event-related services. Asked whether Dallas would ultimately have to pay, Washburne said, \u201cAt the end of the day, we don\u2019t plan on the city having to pay anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT\u2019S NEXT:<\/strong> Organizers must complete an accounting after the convention to determine the final division of expenses. \u201cWe don\u2019t plan on the city being on the hook for anything,\u201d Washburne said.<\/p>\n<p>Lone Star Politics airs at 8:30 a.m. Sundays, hosted by NBC5&#8217;s Phil Prazan and The Dallas Morning News&#8217; political writer Gromer Jeffers Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas developer Ray Washburne, co-chair of the Dallas Host Committee, said on NBC5\u2019s Lone Star Politics Sunday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1046915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1046914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117224209398349627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}