In Reply to: Bibi joins the "Screwed by Trump Club" posted by mh on June 16, 2026 at 10:23:43
Trump Ballroom Costs Balloon To $600 Million, Taxpayers To Foot Half Bill
The cost of President Donald Trump's sprawling White House ballroom project has spiraled to $600 million, with American taxpayers paying roughly half of the bill, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The bombshell revelation shatters Trump's initial insistence that funding for the project would come only from private donors. The construction cost was originally estimated to be $200 million.
The Post's reporting is based on a detailed project summary put together in March by Clark Construction, the contractor overseeing the massive project that has seen the East Wing demolished and a secure underground bunker added to the specifications.
The Post obtained six cost estimates, including one dated March 5 indicating that the projected cost had ballooned to $600 million — with $155 million coming from the Secret Service, $149 million from the White House Military Office, and $3 million from the Executive Residence.
The newspaper points out Trump has alluded to the Secret Service and the military contributing security enhancements, without specifying the price of those upgrades.
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We aren't paying half the bill. We are paying much more. When a donating company gets billions in contracts, you can bet we are overpaying for what the government is buying.
All that coruption is being paid with our money.