The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to allow construction of a $400 million ballroom adjacent to the White House to proceed. The request follows a federal appeals court decision to halt the project, which ruled that the construction lacked necessary approval from Congress.
The administration is seeking to keep the appeals court's halt on hold while it prepares a full appeal. Solicitor General D. [name truncated in source] argued that the project must proceed for national security reasons, stating, “This Project, like its predecessors, should be a matter for the President and the political process, not construction-by-injunction.”
Two lower courts have previously indicated that the administration was flouting the law by proceeding without congressional authorization. To make way for the new construction, the East Wing of the White House was demolished last year.
While the administration frames the project as a matter of national security and presidential prerogative, other sources describe the $400 million ballroom as massive or sprawling.
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