Judge: White House Ballroom ‘Construction Has to Stop!’
President Trump says he will appeal. Preservationist ‘pleased.’ And, former East Wing staffers relieved for now.
Work on President Trump’s proposed White House ballroom must stop and cannot continue unless Congress approves the project, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The decision came just two days before the National Capital Planning Commission—a federal panel that reviews projects in Washington, D.C., and that had received thousands of negative comments against the project—was set to vote on the planned $400 million, 90,000-square-foot East Wing that included the 22,000-square-foot ballroom.
President Trump was swift in his response to United States District Judge Richard J. Leon’s decision when he told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday evening while signing an executive order meant to crack down on mail-in voting that he plans to appeal the judge’s decision and that he took issue wi…
