The Post obtained 6 cost estimates for the entire #EastWing project, dated from July 2025 to March of this year, that show an increasing price tag as well as the expected sources of funding. Those records, as well as invoices & correspondence, provide the clearest accounting yet of #Trump’s most ambitious construction project in the nation’s capital. The project is deeply unpopular with most Americans, & even some Republican lawmakers have balked at funding it.

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Five months after the demolition of the White House’s #EastWing, #Trump claimed that the project to construct a massive #ballroom & a bunker in its place would cost up to $400 million & that private donors would pay for all of it.

“This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on March 31, describing the project as including bomb shelters & major medical facilities.

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