{"id":46390,"date":"2026-04-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46390"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:19:03","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-judge-halts-above-ground-construction-of-trumps-white-house-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46390","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Judge halts above-ground construction of Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_White_House_June_2024_DJTechYT_Commons_Wiki_300px.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_White_House_June_2024_DJTechYT_Commons_Wiki_300px.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41948\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f5cd4dde1b29774e8ab30c02e252e174\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e2\/The_White_House_June_2024.jpg\">The White House, DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A US judge has halted construction of the above ground portion of Donald Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom project, but allowed plans for an underground bunker to proceed, reports the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Richard Leon wrote in his ruling\u2026 that Congress must approve the project, adding that Trump appeared to be trying to side-step a previous court order by reclassifying the ballroom plans as vital for national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8r48mgnzmjo\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: The White House, DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A US judge has halted construction of the above ground portion of Donald Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom project, but allowed plans for an underground bunker to proceed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,29,163,106],"class_list":["post-46390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-global","tag-heritage","tag-legal","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46391,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390\/revisions\/46391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}