President Donald Trump announced he will immediately appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal court ordered construction on the White House ballroom to stop. In a social media post, Trump criticized the 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as ‘horrendous, politically motivated, and unlawful.’ The court ruled that the decision to build a ‘massive ballroom’ lies with Congress, not the executive branch.
Background
The appeals court upheld a lower-court decision that paused above-ground construction of the proposed 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom project, which replaced the demolished East Wing. The earlier ruling allowed work to continue on underground national-security facilities and certain safety and security measures.
Trump argued that the court’s decision ‘severely jeopardizes the lives and welfare of the people who work, and will be working, at the White House — including all future Presidents of the United States, and their families, as well as the lives of all those visiting, such as Heads of State and other Dignitaries, and all Americans who wish to visit the historic, beautiful Executive Mansion.’
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