US House of Congress Minority Leader and senior Democrat Hakeem Jeffries says the party won’t support fast-tracking Trump’s White House ballroom project.<\/p>\n
Trump and Republicans have said Sunday’s shooting incident shows the need for a more secure venue for such events.<\/p>\n
Jeffries labelled it a “vanity project” and demanded Trump focus on affordability.<\/p>\n
“I have not seen a specific request with respect to the ballroom. But needless to say, we have to drive down the cost of living,” he said, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
“These are the things we should actually focus on, not a vanity project that resulted from the destruction \u2013 that was unauthorised \u2013 of the East Wing of the White House.”<\/p>\n
Critics, and one lawsuit currently before the courts, say Trump needs Congressional approval for a renovation of this scale at the White House.<\/p>\n
The building is expected to cost about US$400 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US House of Congress Minority Leader and senior Democrat Hakeem Jeffries says the party won’t support fast-tracking Trump’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-635034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}