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Trump’s East Wing Ballroom Plan: See the Design
See how much his East Wing ballroom design will upend the White House symmetry.
Decorating style reminiscent of the late Rococovfefe period
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The National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday delayed its final vote on President Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom amid a deluge of negative comments from the public.
The board, which is led by Trump allies, had been expected to vote to approve the project on Thursday. But Stephen Staudigl, a spokesman for the panel, said in a statement that the timing would be pushed back “given the large amount of public input on the project.”
The vote is now expected at the commission’s meeting on April 2.
About 32,000 comments from across the country have poured into the commission, which reviews the impact of development projects on the capital’s urban landscape, during the public comment period before its vote on the 90,000-square-foot ballroom project.
An overwhelming majority of the comments, more than 98 percent, are negative, according to an analysis by The New York Times, which used an artificial intelligence model to classify each comment’s view. Only around 1 percent of the comments supported the project.