Trump’s ballroom vanity project, your bill

U.S. President Donald Trump charged into this destructive crusade without a word to Congress, without a clear rationale for why he was doing it and, now, with a spiraling price tag for the American taxpayers. No, we’re not referring to Trump’s ill-conceived war in Iran — though the description works pretty well there, too. We’re referring to his monstrosity of a planned White House ballroom, which is on track to devolve from a $200 million privately funded vanity project to a $400 million publicly funded security project. As Missourians grit their teeth at astronomical fuel prices thanks to Trump’s unauthorized assault on Iran, they should ask why their junior U.S. senator, Eric Schmitt, is now trying to stick them with the bill for this unauthorized assault on the history and dignity of the White House. Schmitt is co-sponsoring legislation to retroactively give Trump the permission he never bothered asking of Congress — along with public funds he said he wouldn’t need — for construction of his ballroom where the East Wing of White House used to be. The measure, co-sponsWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times