Judge orders Trump to halt White House ballroom project
發佈日期: 2026-04-01 11:58
TVB News
A U.S. judge has ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to halt his planned ballroom construction project on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing without approval from Congress. The project was expected to cost USD 400 million.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted a request for a preliminary injunction by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organisation. The body brought a lawsuit alleging Trump exceeded his authority when he razed the historic East Wing and launched construction on the new building.
The decision by Leon, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, keeps the 90,000-square-foot ballroom project on hold while the lawsuit continues.
The judge said he was pausing his order for 14 days to allow the Trump administration to appeal. Leon said the order does not affect "construction necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House." The Justice Department hours after Leon issued his order appealed it to the Washington-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Trump in a post on his social media site Truth Social called the National Trust a group of left-wing "lunatics" and said his ballroom is "under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be the finest Building of its kind anywhere in the World."
