{"id":71994,"date":"2026-04-17T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/judge-again-halts-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:20","slug":"judge-again-halts-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/judge-again-halts-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Again Halts Construction of Trump&#8217;s White House Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Thursday ordered a pause on the construction of President Donald Trump\u2019s new White House ballroom. It comes as the Fine Arts Commission, he personally appointed, approved an initial concept for a towering arch in Washington D.C. that would be more than twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial and a soaring 250 feet to honor the nation\u2019s birthday. NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Thursday ordered a pause on the construction of President Donald Trump\u2019s new White House ballroom. It comes as the Fine Arts Commission, he personally appointed, approved an initial concept for a towering arch in Washington D.C. that would be more than twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial and a soaring &#8230; <a title=\"Judge Again Halts Construction of Trump&#8217;s White House Ballroom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/judge-again-halts-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Judge Again Halts 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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71994","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\/71994","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=71994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}