Donald the New York Real Estate guy is racing the clock to rebuild the American President’s Home and Office in HIS image….
He torn down the Nation’s ‘White House’ on his own….
People where NOT Happy…
Now?
He wants to erect a ‘Ballroom’ and probably named it after him for All Eternity….
Lot of people ain’t happy with this naked grab for his ego…..
A federal judge seemed freshly skeptical of President Trump’s White House ballroom construction project as he weighed a new bid by preservationists to halt it.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday sharply pressed the Justice Department (DOJ) over the varying authorities it listed as reasons the president’s $400 million construction project should be allowed to proceed without congressional approval.
“This has been a case where there have been shifting theories, shifting dynamics, I regret to say, from the beginning,” said the judge, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.
Trump began demolishing the East Wing in October to clear the way for the site of the new ballroom, a 90,000-square-foot project where state dinners, galas and other events are expected to be held.
The ballroom is slated for completion by 2028 and is being funded mostly by private donors. A panel of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose commissioners were appointed by Trump in January, approved the proposal last month….
The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued the Trump administration in December to stop the project until the White House abides by federal law and other rules, such as obtaining congressional approval and going through multiple independent reviews and a public comment period.
Lawyers for the preservationists said Tuesday that the government has put the court on a “months long merry-go-round ride” regarding who is in charge of the project, complicating legal review, but now claims that the project is too far along to stop.
“What they can’t do here is have it both ways,” said lawyer Thaddeus Heuer…..
months long
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