{"id":357890,"date":"2026-04-01T03:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357890\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:11:06","slug":"judge-halts-construction-on-trumps-white-house-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357890\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge halts construction on Trump\u2019s White House ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ABHLKHWDVZGJ3JSENEODULDI4Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.60.0_3.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">federal judge ordered a halt<\/a> to construction of President Donald Trump\u2019s White House ballroom, ruling that Trump lacks authority to fund the estimated $400 million project through private donations.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"V72454ANDNCW7L2B3Q7B7PBENU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. District Judge Richard Leon disagreed with the Trump administration\u2019s argument that the president has broad authority to make changes to the White House without congressional approval, including projects on the scale of his planned, 90,000-square-foot ballroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge ordered a halt to construction of President Donald Trump\u2019s White House ballroom, ruling that Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-357890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}