{"id":556792,"date":"2026-03-31T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:09:10","slug":"federal-judge-orders-halt-to-white-house-ballroom-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556792\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge orders halt to White House ballroom construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The judge said Trump can&#8217;t build it without authorization from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>ByABC NEWS  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 31, 2026 7:45PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Federal judge orders halt to White House ballroom construction\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking further construction of the White House ballroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Judge Richard Leon wrote that President Donald Trump can&#8217;t build the ballroom without authorization from Congress, and that &#8220;no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Construction cranes being used for the White House ballroom are seen around the White House, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Washington. \" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/18817101_033126-cc-ap-white-house-ballroom-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Construction cranes being used for the White House ballroom are seen around the White House, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judge said Trump can&#8217;t build it without authorization from Congress. ByABC NEWS Tuesday, March 31, 2026 7:45PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[247235,9257,4,450,451,6377,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-556792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-247235","tag-abc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-national","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}