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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Shrai Popat

‘Golden crime scene’: Elizabeth Warren calls for inquiry into Trump’s ballroom funding

a partially destroyed building
A demolished part of the East Wing of the White House on 23 October 2025. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has said that the next independent Department of Justice “should investigate” the private donations that have funded the construction of the new White House ballroom.

Warren – who is the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee – told the Guardian in a statement that the ballroom could be “a golden crime scene” and urged the next administration to “follow the money” to uncover “whether any crimes were committed” in its financing.

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