“The entire purpose of replacing the White House with this gaudy ballroom is to serve as a reward for Trump’s campaign donors and crypto scam bribers,” Jesse Lee, an adviser in both the Obama and Biden administrations, told The Hill. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and more have weighed in on President Donald Trump's $250-million ballroom project.

Head Start programs for preschoolers are scrambling for federal funds. Thousands more federal workers are going without paychecks. “We have the hottest country anywhere in the world, which tells you about leadership,

President Trump has sought to raise $200 million for a new White House ballroom — and has tapped these megacompanies and wealthy individuals for donations.

President Donald Trump is formally meeting with the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for the first time at the White House on Monday.

They are both expected to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit this weekend. Earlier, the Kremlin denied it was holding up Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine and insisted it had not changed its demands ahead of possible talks.