A federal judge on Thursday issued a new order halting construction of President Donald Trump's much-touted new White House ballroom, finding the administration was using fancy footwork to try to sidestep his previous ruling.
A federal judge wrote that an exception he made for work on security features did not cover most of the construction on the larger ballroom project Trump has proposed.
The judge allows the underground bunker portion of the project to proceed, while the US president says the ballroom "is needed now".
A U.S. judge blocked Trump from proceeding with above-ground construction of his 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom, in a near-term blow to the administration's plans.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon again blocked the majority of construction on President Donald Trump's White House ballroom.In a 10-page opinion on Thursday, Leon noted that the circuit court had ordered him to revise an earlier ruling after Trump claimed that a national security exception would allow him to construct the entire ballroom.Leon's…
But underground construction work on a presidential bunker underneath the ballroom can continue, the judge said.
A federal judge has limited President Trump’s White House ballroom project to “below-ground construction,” rejecting the administration’s claims that the entire project must proceed for security reasons. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, ruled last month that construction of the $400 million ballroom must…
President Trump has been dealt another setback on his massive ballroom project.A federal judge ruled Thursday that construction can only proceed on the underground, national security–related parts of the project, and not on the 90,000-square-foot ballroom the president wants to build to entertain guests.“National security is not a blank check to proceed…
