Records Reveal $600 Million Estimate for Trump’s Ballroom

“Five months after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, President Donald Trump claimed that the project to construct a massive ballroom and a bunker in its place would cost up to $400 million and that private donors would pay for all of it,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Trump: “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.”

“But a detailed project summary prepared for the White House by the contractor more than three weeks before Trump’s comments estimated the total construction cost at $600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers.”