Trump’s ballroom vanity project is still running straight into the law
The White House ballroom fight didn’t end with one judge’s order; it kept widening as the administration leaned harder into emergency-style legal arguments to protect a project critics say should never have been started this way. The newest wrinkle is that the administration is now arguing the construction halt itself creates security problems, turning a gilded ego project into a national-security claim with all the credibility of a fake tan in a thunderstorm.
The White House ballroom fight didn’t end with one judge’s order; it kept widening as the administration leaned harder into emergency-style legal arguments to protect a project critics say should never have been started this way. The newest wrinkle is that the administration is now arguing the construction halt itself creates security problems, turning a gilded ego project into a national-security claim with all the…
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