{"id":72701,"date":"2026-04-27T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/doj-pressures-group-to-drop-lawsuit-against-trumps-ballroom-after-gala-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:55:45","slug":"doj-pressures-group-to-drop-lawsuit-against-trumps-ballroom-after-gala-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/doj-pressures-group-to-drop-lawsuit-against-trumps-ballroom-after-gala-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ pressures group to drop lawsuit against Trump\u2019s ballroom after gala shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump officials  use incident at correspondents\u2019 dinner to pitch case for $400m project, arguing it will be \u2018safe space\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/27\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-charges-donald-trump-king-charles-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US Department of J (DoJ) has used the weekend shooting in Washington DC to pressure a preservation group to drop a lawsuit seeking to halt the construction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> White House ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> officials, including the president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/trump-white-house-ballroom-dinner-shooting\">seized<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/27\/white-house-press-dinner-shooting-security\">incident<\/a> at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner to advance their case for the completion of the controversial $400m project, for which the White House\u2019s East Wing was suddenly demolished, arguing the new ballroom was needed as a \u201csafe space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/27\/doj-trump-ballroom-gala-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump officials use incident at correspondents\u2019 dinner to pitch case for $400m project, arguing it will be \u2018safe space\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates The US Department of J (DoJ) has used the weekend shooting in Washington DC to pressure a preservation group to drop a lawsuit seeking to halt the construction of Donald &#8230; <a title=\"DoJ pressures group to drop lawsuit against Trump\u2019s ballroom after gala shooting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/doj-pressures-group-to-drop-lawsuit-against-trumps-ballroom-after-gala-shooting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DoJ pressures group to drop lawsuit against Trump\u2019s ballroom after gala shooting\">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-72701","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\/72701","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=72701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}