The US Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency made up of Donald Trump appointees, approved the design of the president\u2019s planned White House ballroom after a single hearing, despite ongoing litigation and public outcry. <\/p>\n
While the presentation on Thursday was limited in scope to a design concept for the new addition, the agency made the decision to vote to approve it in full as a final plan, which means that no further hearings on the ballroom will take place. Trump thanked the panel in a social media postBloomberg Terminal<\/a> after the decision. He has said the project will cost as much as $400 million, with funding coming from outside donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency made up of Donald Trump appointees, approved the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,9285,10982,10979,1120,2343,96,158856,229,158855,224,56,54,55,2866,3285],"class_list":{"0":"post-435458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-c-suite","12":"tag-citylab","13":"tag-construction","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-donald-john-trump","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-oval-office-the","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-shalom-baranes","20":"tag-social-media","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom","24":"tag-washington","25":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}