Holding the retreat at a Trump property threatens to ignite the same kind of criticism that dogged Trump’s first term: that he has sought to personally profit from his public position.

Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”

President Donald Trump is addressing House Republicans at his southern Florida golf club, Trump National Doral, on Monday afternoon. He is expected to begin speaking at approximately 5:00 p.m. Eastern.

House Republicans traded the bitter cold of Washington, DC, for President Trump’s ritzy resort near Miami this week to figure out how their tenuous majority can fulfill the grandiose promises they’ve made for a legislative package that will define the 119th Congress.