President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to resume construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work.
Trump’s solicitor general petitioned the high court Friday to suspend last week’s decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit. The divided panel ruled last week Trump must stop the White House ballroom’s construction because Congress has not approved the project.
The panel’s majority said Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom where the White House’s East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall.
