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The White House Needs a Ballroom. The Left Just Hates Who's Building ItDoes the White House need a larger, permanent, secure place for state dinners and major official events? Federal planners say the project provides exactly that function. History says presidents have repeatedly reshaped the White House when its needs changed. Future presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike, would use the space. So why has a ballroom become another national emergency? Because Donald Trump wants it.
The question keeps coming back: Will Trump get his ballroom? The wording tells you plenty. The project is treated first as a Donald Trump indulgence and only later, if at all, as an improvement to a building that has been altered, expanded, rebuilt, and modernized by presidents for more than two centuries. The White House plan calls for roughly 90,000 square feet of event space with seating for 650 people. The East Room seats about 200. Large state functions can require a temporary tent about 100 yards from the main entrance. Federal planners describe the new facility as a permanent, secure event space designed to increase capacity for official state functions.
Trump won't be packing it into a moving truck when his term ends. Every president who follows him would inherit it. History should make the current outrage harder to sustain. Thomas Jefferson added colonnades. Theodore Roosevelt demolished the old conservatories and built what became the West Wing. Franklin Roosevelt expanded the East Wing in 1942. Harry Truman oversaw a renovation so extensive that workers gutted the interior of the Executive Mansion and rebuilt it inside the original exterior walls... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading Here.
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