What to know about Trump’s White House ballroom construction

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President Donald Trump is clashing with critics once again, this time over his plans to construct an ornate ballroom in the White House complex.

Trump announced one of his most ambitious construction projects of his second term in late July — a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, originally slated to cost roughly $200 million. The ballroom reached new heights of controversy this week when the president revealed a change in earlier plans, mandating that the whole East Wing be destroyed.

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