Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s #ballroom project, with MORE THAN HALF coming from #TAXPAYERS
An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200 million more than #Trump has said publicly & counters his claims that no #TaxpayersMoney will be spent.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/16/records-reveal-600m-estimate-trumps-ballroom-project-with-half-taxpayers/

Multiple project summaries provided to the White House by Clark Construction show that internal cost estimates have been significantly higher than admin officials have acknowledged in public comments or court filings. They also show that the work was projected to rely heavily on taxpayer dollars from the moment it was announced.

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Since first announcing the East Wing project last July, #Trump has repeatedly said that the price tag would not exceed $400 million & that private donations routed through a nonprofit would cover its entire cost. At other times, he has said that the #SecretService & the #military would contribute #security enhancements, without elaborating on the price of those upgrades.
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By the time #Trump made his comments in March, the federal government had already approved more than a dozen payments to the contractor overseeing the work, Clark Construction, totaling tens of millions of dollars in #PublicFunds, acc/to a log of the contractor’s invoices….

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But a detailed project summary prepared for the White House by the contractor more than 3 weeks before Trump’s comments estimated the total construction cost at $600 million—with more than half coming from #taxpayers, according to a copy of the contractor estimate obtained by WaPo.

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Five months after the demolition of the White House’s #EastWing, #Trump claimed that the project to construct a massive #ballroom & a bunker in its place would cost up to $400 million & that private donors would pay for all of it.

“This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on March 31, describing the project as including bomb shelters & major medical facilities.

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Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s #ballroom project, with MORE THAN HALF coming from #TAXPAYERS
An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200 million more than #Trump has said publicly & counters his claims that no #TaxpayersMoney will be spent.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #scam #fraud #GovernmentWaste
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/16/records-reveal-600m-estimate-trumps-ballroom-project-with-half-taxpayers/

Yes!

Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s $1.8 billion payout #SlushFund
US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said the government has not provided “absolute certainty” it won’t try to resurrect the fund in the future.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/12/federal-judge-indefinitely-blocks-trumps-18-billion-payout-fund/

…despite #DOJ officials claiming the effort is dead.…, US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund…. She forcefully rejected the government’s arguments that the case was moot, citing #Trump’s praising of the idea & acting AG #ToddBlanche’s unwillingness to say under the penalty of perjury that the admin will not try to stand it up in the future.

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Yes!

Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s $1.8 billion payout #SlushFund
US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said the government has not provided “absolute certainty” it won’t try to resurrect the fund in the future.

#Trump #law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/12/federal-judge-indefinitely-blocks-trumps-18-billion-payout-fund/