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fromWIRED
2 days agoWhite House Staffers Couldn't Care Less About the East Wing Demolition
"Not affecting me at all, to be honest," a White House aide tells WIRED. This source, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, adds they "have not thought about it" and that they've "probably only heard a handful of people talking about it." President Donald Trump is moving ahead on a multi-hundred-million-dollar, privately funded ballroom that would supplant the East Wing, which was added onto the White House in 1902 before undergoing an expansion in 1942.
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fromBoston.com
2 days agoWhite House expands East Wing demolition as critics decry Trump overreach
Demolition of much of the White House East Wing began, prompting preservationist alarm and calls to pause construction of a privately funded, 90,000-square-foot ballroom that may overwhelm the house.
fromAxios
3 days agoTrump defends $300M ballroom project: "We had to take down the existing" East Wing
"Certain areas are being left," said Trump of the privately funded project. "We determined that after really a tremendous amount of study with some of the best architects in the world, we determined that really knocking it down, trying to use a little section, the East Wing was not much. It was not much left from the original," he added. "In order to do it properly, we had to take down the existing structure."
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fromFortune
3 days agoTrump begins demolishing East Wing of the White House to erect a $250 million ballroom that doesn't have federal approval | Fortune
The White House began demolishing part of the East Wing to build President Trump's $250 million ballroom without approval from the National Capital Planning Commission.
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