WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to continue building a $400 million ballroom at the White House, ruling a day after a lower court judge continued to block above-ground construction on the site of the former East Wing.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Friday put on temporary hold the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon halting part of the project. The panel scheduled a hearing for June 5 to review the case.
In his ruling Thursday, Leon continued to block above-ground construction of the 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom addition while allowing only below-ground work to continue on a bunker and other “national security facilities” at the site.
Oh good, nice to see funds not going to wasteful things like healthcare or aid for those in need or education.
Americans have accepted that things like Health Care have to come out of the budget after EVERYTHING else is paid for.
We need to flip that, and make things like Health Care, Day Care, Free College/Trade Schools, etc. our top priorities, and they can build bombs with whatever is left. Actually, no they can’t, something else more important just came up…
Couldn’t agree more with this framing!