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The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is on track to spend at least $900 million — $927 million by one accounting — on White House construction, combining the roughly $600 million ballroom project...
A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Aug. 7, 2026 that above-ground construction of the White House ballroom cannot continue without approval from Congress. The 2-1...
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon on February 26, 2026 declined to grant the National Trust for Historic Preservation a preliminary injunction pausing construction of the White House ballroom. The Trust had asked the...
Effective October 28, 2025, the White House terminated all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the body Congress created more than a century ago to advise the president, Congress and District of Columbia...