{"id":70513,"date":"2026-03-31T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:55:36","slug":"federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge temporarily blocks construction of Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued an order temporarily blocking the construction of President Donald Trump&#8217;s expansive new White House ballroom and any further demolition of the East Wing.\u201cI have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have,&#8221; wrote U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued an order temporarily blocking the construction of President Donald Trump&#8217;s expansive new White House ballroom and any further demolition of the East Wing.\u201cI have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority &#8230; <a title=\"Federal judge temporarily blocks construction of Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal judge temporarily blocks construction of Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}