13 entries in the ledger
The Supreme Court on Aug. 31, 2026 granted the Trump administration's emergency request and blocked lower-court orders that had paused aboveground construction of the president's new White House ballroom. The unsigned...
Three former officials told The Washington Post that the White House already contains a subterranean secure facility of the kind the administration says the East Wing project is needed to provide. Two said it can...
Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 21 issued an administrative stay freezing a court order that would have required work on President Trump's White House ballroom to stop at midnight. The order set no new deadline, so...
With the ballroom's fate before the Supreme Court, the administration has put 250 workers on the site 20 hours a day, seven days a week, and told the justices in a court filing that the project is now two-thirds...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency application at the Supreme Court on Aug. 14 asking the justices to let construction of the White House ballroom continue. The filing follows an Aug. 7 decision by the...
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...
The Senate parliamentarian ruled on May 17 that $1 billion in White House security funding could not ride on a roughly $72 billion budget-reconciliation package funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and...
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on March 29, 2026, President Trump confirmed that a massive military complex is being built beneath the White House ballroom, saying the ballroom essentially becomes a shed for...
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...