Trump renews petition for White House ballroom, pointing to nearby shooting

Trump renews petition for White House ballroom, pointing to nearby shooting

Trump's DOJ filed to restart the court-blocked 90,000-sq-ft White House ballroom complex — including underground bomb shelters and a military hospital — citing a nearby shooting as national security urgency. Project costs have surged from $200M to $1B in requested taxpayer funds; Senate Republicans already stripped the appropriation from a bill, a textbook signal of executive infrastructure overrun.