Of Course‼️….
A New York Real Estate guy working to get US Taxpayer to pay for HIS Dream for the ‘People’s House’ to enshrine himself in the Forever History of the Government of the Under States of America IS gonna keep pushing….
President Donald Trump is defending the growing cost of his White House ballroom project after estimated costs to complete its construction have nearly doubled.
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump acknowledged that the construction project’s price tag has gone up from around $200 million to “something less than 400.” But he claimed that the end result “will be magnificent, safe, and secure.”
“The only reason the cost has changed is because, after deep rooted studies, it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal, which would not have been adequate to handle the necessary events, meetings, and even future Inaugurations,” Trump said. “This was a necessary change, it was done long ago, but the Fake News failed to report it, trying to make it look like there was a cost overrun. Actually, it is coming in ahead of schedule, and under budget!”
The President’s post comes after Senate Republicans included a stipulation in a funding bill for immigration enforcement that they are seeking to push through, in which they allocate $1 billion “for the purposes of security adjustments and upgrades, including within the perimeter fence of the White House Compound to support enhancements by the United States Secret Service relating to the East Wing Modernization Project, including above-ground and below-ground security features.” The bill does not explicitly name Trump’s proposed ballroom.
A separate bill put forth by a group of GOP senators, led by Lindsey Graham, proposed providing $400 million in funding for the ballroom project, which would be offset by customs fees.
Trump previously said that the project would be funded by private donations.
Democrats have pushed back on the ballroom project. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called it a “vanity project that resulted from the destruction that was unauthorized of the East Wing of the White House.”…
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After the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner in April, Trump and Republican lawmakers reiterated their claims that the ballroom project is important for security purposes, with some suggesting that Congress provide the $400 million needed to fund its construction…..
image….Reuters
No Kings. No Ballroom.
by William Kristol
Donald Trump’s ballroom isn’t just an architectural monstrosity and a blunderbuss of bad taste. It is an assault on American republicanism