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.
Well, I guess Congress could form a commission to decide what to do with it.
I don’t especially like Trump’s aesthetic decisions at all. Personally, I kind of like the comparatively-modest look that the US historically went with. But that aside, but I don’t know if a ballroom would be the worst thing. Could remodel it to be whatever too, under the next administration.
I’d be fine with spending some taxpayer money on it. I mean, we do sporadically need to renovate the thing, and we rebuilt the thing once after the British burned it and then again basically gutted the entire thing for major renovations later. Might as well get the next renovation done now, seeing as he’s torn the wing down already, give it some decades to last before we have to do another gut-and-rebuild.
Well, I guess Congress could form a commission to decide what to do with it.
I don’t especially like Trump’s aesthetic decisions at all. Personally, I kind of like the comparatively-modest look that the US historically went with. But that aside, but I don’t know if a ballroom would be the worst thing. Could remodel it to be whatever too, under the next administration.
I’d be fine with spending some taxpayer money on it. I mean, we do sporadically need to renovate the thing, and we rebuilt the thing once after the British burned it and then again basically gutted the entire thing for major renovations later. Might as well get the next renovation done now, seeing as he’s torn the wing down already, give it some decades to last before we have to do another gut-and-rebuild.
EDIT: The gutting was around 1950:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Reconstruction