Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said President Donald Trump’s new $200 million ballroom in the White House will be done in a “tasteful and historical kind of a way.”
“I mean they’re not putting in a Dave and Buster’s kind of situation here,” Fetterman told Fox News on Saturday. “Upgrading some of these facilities seems pretty normal overall.”
At the end of July, the White House announced its plans to tear down the East Wing to build a new ballroom to accommodate large social events, saying it will be a 90,000-square-foot “much-needed and exquisite addition” that will seat 650 people, and be an “ornately designed and carefully crafted space” that might look similar to the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida club.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump and donors will finance the project. Renovations will begin in September, and it’s expected to be done before Trump leaves office ― however, construction has seemingly already begun because White House tours have been put on pause.
This is just the latest section of the White House to undergo a makeover. In June, the Rose Garden was covered in gravel, and portraits of Trump have been hung throughout the building.
