Trump's £233 million ($300 million) White House ballroom project descended into chaos as America's leading historic preservation group filed a federal lawsuit to halt construction, marking the first formal legal challenge to the controversial renovation that has seen costs balloon by 50 per cent and architects sacked for refusing to build a structure larger than the mansion itself.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump's White House ballroom project. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges Trump demolished the 123-year-old East Wing in October without conducting any of the legally required environmental assessments or consulting the federal commissions charged with overseeing such work.
