{"id":592922,"date":"2026-04-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592922"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:00:00","slug":"republican-lawmakers-move-on-legislation-to-build-and-fund-trumps-400-million-ballroom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592922","title":{"rendered":"Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two days after a gunman tried to breach security at the\u00a0White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner at the Hilton hotel, Republican lawmakers got straight to work pushing for President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president and First Lady Melania Trump were\u00a0ushered out of the dinner <\/strong>after the gunman pulled a Leeroy Jenkins past security and shot a Secret Service agent near the security checkpoint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The moment President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents dinner after loud noises were heard. pic.twitter.com\/RnbIumNR3A<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only was the security atrocious considering how many high-profile individuals were at the event (where Reagan shooter John Hinckley, who shot Regan there, said it was a dumb place to keep holding high-profile events),\u00a0Trump was evacuated a full\u00a010 seconds after JD Vance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udea8 WATCH: Trump \u2014 escorted by the arms, Vance \u2014 grabbed by the scruff<\/p>\n

CNN has released footage showing the evacuation of U.S. leadership.<\/p>\n

Security forces first escort Vance out, then rush back for Trump. pic.twitter.com\/JNyzRa0ftG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, great job there.<\/p>\n

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Secret Service agents respond during the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night. (Tom Brenner\/AP)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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BUILD THAT BALL(room)<\/h2>\n

And now, the push to get Trump’s ballroom completed…\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s get it done,” Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) said on X, announcing that\u00a0he would introduce legislation this week<\/strong>\u00a0and move for unanimous consent of “express approval for construction of a Presidential ballroom” – while over in the House\u00a0Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) will introduce the “Build the Ballroom Act” and file for explicit statutory authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“While the lawsuits attempting to stop this privately-funded gift to the country are nonsense, last night makes it clear that we need it\u2014and we need it now,” he posted on X. “I look forward to Democrats repudiating their violent rhetoric against President Trump by cosponsoring and supporting this bill. Mr. President, build away.”<\/p>\n

Boebert’s on it too –\u00a0<\/strong>with the Colorado Republican announcing that she ‘and her team’ are in the process of drafting legislation to guarantee the project’s completion.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t believe congressional approval is required for the project, but if it\u2019ll keep activist judges on the sideline, so be it,” she posted on X. “More to come this week.”<\/p>\n

Even\u00a0Sen. John Fetterman, who was there on Saturday, (D-PN) is onboard<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We were there front and center. That venue wasn\u2019t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government,” he wrote on X. “After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A model is seen as President Donald Trump addresses a dinner for donors who have contributed to build the new ballroom at the White House in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. John McDonnell\/AP Photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As the\u00a0Epoch Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>notes further,\u00a0Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche also joined the calls to allow the ballroom to go ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to build the ballroom,\u201d he posted on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump said on Truth Social that the project was ahead of schedule and well within budget, arguing it\u2019s necessary for security purposes.<\/p>\n

He criticized a lawsuit by historic preservationists as based on the \u201cpassing aesthetic gripe of a single person\u201d that is no justification for delaying a secure facility.<\/p>\n

The ballroom project, envisioned by Trump for years as a classical addition to the executive mansion, has faced repeated legal hurdles. A federal judge ruled in March that construction requires explicit congressional authorization, halting above-ground work while allowing limited underground activity to continue. <\/strong>Appeals courts have issued temporary stays, but litigation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation continues.<\/p>\n

Trump once offered to fund a ballroom privately during the Obama years but was turned down. Construction moved forward in Trump\u2019s second term after demolition of parts of the East Wing. The administration described it as a privately-financed upgrade needed to bring the White House up-to-date to accommodate modern events.<\/p>\n

Architects called<\/a> the design \u201cclassical, beautiful, and long overdue,\u201d as court cases mulled whether the executive branch required legislative sign-off for such a considerable alteration to the historic complex.<\/p>\n

Preservation groups contend<\/a> the project goes around lawful reviews and risks the White House\u2019s historic character. The Justice Department on April 26 asked<\/a> for the case to be dropped to ensure the safety of the president, his family, and administration officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom Two days after a gunman tried to breach security at the\u00a0White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner at the Hilton hotel, Republican lawmakers got straight to work pushing for President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom.\u00a0 The president and First Lady Melania Trump… Continue reading Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}