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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Fresh blow to Trump as court says he must stop building White House ballroom and needs consent from Congress

President Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to fast-track his new White House ballroom without Congress’s authority, a divided panel of appellate court judges in Washington, D.C., said Friday.

In the latest blow to Trump’s efforts to build the 90,000-square-foot addition to the White House, two judges on the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled the president must halt construction until he seeks Congress’s approval.

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