{"id":70880,"date":"2026-04-04T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/halting-400m-white-house-ballroom-project-is-national-security-risk-trump-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:04:50","slug":"halting-400m-white-house-ballroom-project-is-national-security-risk-trump-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/halting-400m-white-house-ballroom-project-is-national-security-risk-trump-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Halting $400m White House ballroom project is national security risk, Trump officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US National Park Service lawyers cite materials that will be installed to make \u2018heavily fortified\u2019 facility<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s administration is arguing that a judge\u2019s order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/31\/judge-blocks-trump-white-house-ballroom-plan\">halt construction of a $400m White House ballroom<\/a> creates a security risk for the US president as his team asks a federal appeals court to pause the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>In a motion filed on Friday, US National Park Service (NPS) lawyers say that the federal judge\u2019s order to suspend construction of the new facility is \u201cthreatening grave national-security harms to the White House, the president and his family, and the president\u2019s staff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/trump-white-house-ballroom-project\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US National Park Service lawyers cite materials that will be installed to make \u2018heavily fortified\u2019 facility Donald Trump\u2019s administration is arguing that a judge\u2019s order to halt construction of a $400m White House ballroom creates a security risk for the US president as his team asks a federal appeals court to pause the ruling. In &#8230; <a title=\"Halting $400m White House ballroom project is national security risk, Trump officials say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/halting-400m-white-house-ballroom-project-is-national-security-risk-trump-officials-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Halting $400m White House ballroom project is national security risk, Trump officials say\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70880","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=70880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}