President Donald Trump has said the new White House ballroom “essentially becomes a shed for what's being built under.“
President Donald Trump has revealed that the U.S. military is building a “massive” complex under the planned White House ballroom, which required the demolition of the East Wing last year. “The military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction, and we're doing very well, so we're ahead of schedule,” the president told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington D.
C, on Sunday evening after spending a weekend at his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. The military complex is “part of” the ballroom, adding: “the ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what's being built under.”Without elaborating on the details of the complex, Trump said information about the plan had seeped out recently because of what he described as"a stupid lawsuit" around the construction of the contested ballroom.were outraged when the East Wing was destroyed last year as construction for the ballroom began, saying the president did not have the right to make such drastic changes to the “People’s House.” Democrats accused Trump of circumventing traditional processes of seeking permission from the National Capital Planning Commission, Commission of Fine Arts and congressional approval.from the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to halt construction until the president has won congressional approval and passed independent reviews is still being considered by a federal judge.Trump appeared defiant of the lawsuit trying to halt construction of the White House ballroom on Sunday, saying works to build it are “ahead of schedule and under budget.”Karoline Leavitt initially said the ballroom’s price tag would be $200 million.Sunday was the first time Trump referred to a military complex being built under the planned ballroom. Talking to reporters, he described the ballroom as a “shed” for this complex. The ballroom will have “high-grade, bullet-proof” glass windows and a drone-proof roof, he said.“When completed, it will be the finest ballroom ever built anywhere in the world, one that has been sought by presidents for over 150 years—and now they are getting THE BEST! Because of its unprecedented structural, safety, and security features, it will also be used for future Presidential Inaugurations.”“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government.”“Even if we are slow and we make mistakes and we fight, that process has meaning to us. No project belonging to the public should be the vision of just one man.”“President Trump is the best builder and developer in the entire world, and the American people can rest well knowing that this project is in his hands.”The president did not provide a new deadline for completion of the ballroom, which the White House said will be finished “long before the end” of Trump’s term. But there is still a chance that the ballroom will not be completed at all if the federal judge hearing the lawsuit against the administration rules to halt construction. During a hearing of the lawsuit earlier this month, Judge Richard Leon described the demolition of the East Wing as “brazen” and suggested he might block the project later this month. “I’m struggling to see this as an ‘alteration,'” he said. White House lawyers have said that the president did not need outside permission to go ahead with the project. The National Capital Planning Commission , a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in Washington D.C., is scheduled on Thursday to take a final vote approving the ballroom. NCPC Chairman Will Scharfat the beginning of a public forum earlier this month hosted the group: “We’re going to take the time to deliberate, and we're going to have a final vote on April 2.”
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