The National Trust for Historic Preservation is asking a judge to block construction of Donald Trump’s planned 90K square foot “ballroom.”
The organization’s filing argues the project is illegal and unconstitutional having failed to undergo required reviews or receive congressional authorization for the addition.
From the Washington Post:
The lawsuit from the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, represents the first major legal challenge to Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot addition and is poised to test the limits of his power.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever — not President Trump, not President Joe Biden, and not anyone else,” the complaint says.
The administration in October rapidly demolished the East Wing to make way for the ballroom over the objections of the National Trust and other historic preservationists who urged the White House to pause its demolition, submit its plans to the National Capital Planning Commission and seek public comment.
The Donald, who doesn’t like to ask anyone’s “permission,” has been moving the project along hoping to see it finished before he leaves the White House in 2029.
In October, Trump fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency tasked with overseeing Trump’s building plans in Washington.
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