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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to suspend construction of a $400 million ballroom after it demolished the East Wing of the White House. U.S.

A federal judge on Thursday issued a new order halting construction of President Donald Trump's much-touted new White House ballroom, finding the administration was using fancy footwork to try to ...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from doing construction work above ground on the controversial proposed White House ballroom. Judge Richard Leon is allowing the administration to ...

A U.S. judge on Thursday rebuked the Trump administration's attempt to proceed with construction of its $400 million White House ballroom project, clarifying in a sharply worded order that any ...

A federal judge has again ordered President Donald Trump to pause construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting the president’s “disingenuous” bid to circumvent an earlier ...

The mammoth project will run to hundreds of millions of dollars, but there are important limits on what the money can be ...

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The judge has however allowed the underground bunker portion of the project to proceed. Trump posted that the ballroom "is needed now".

April 17 (UPI) --All above-ground construction of the White House ballroom must be stopped amid litigation, a federal judge ordered Thursday, reprimanding the Trump administration for trying to ...