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A review of a contract relating to the proposed construction of a White House ballroom indicates that the project will require hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds \u2014 despite previous promises from the Trump administration that it wouldn\u2019t cost taxpayers anything.<\/p>\n

As costs for the project began to rise, President Donald Trump reiterated in late March that funds for the ballroom\u2019s construction wouldn\u2019t come from the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,\u201d Trump said at the time. <\/p>\n

But according to a new report from The Washington Post<\/em>, a summary of plans crafted by Virginia-based Clark Construction \u2014 the contractor tasked with building the new ballroom \u2014 showed that half of the project\u2019s funding would indeed be derived from taxpayers. <\/p>\n

That analysis was formulated three weeks prior to Trump\u2019s promise that no taxpayer dollars would fund the project. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the cost of the project has soared up to $600 million, according to that summary. Half of that amount, around $300 million, would come from taxpayer sources.<\/p>\n

The total projected cost for Trump\u2019s ballroom is more than three times higher than the initial $200 million estimate provided by the administration last summer.<\/p>\n

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The sources for funding the project include $155 million from the Secret Service, $149 million from the White House Military Office, and $3 million from the Executive Residence fund. All three of those agencies receive funding through the collection of federal tax dollars.<\/p>\n

In response to The Washington Post\u2019s <\/em>reporting, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) blasted members of the GOP for allowing the project to happen, and for focusing on the wrong priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans are cutting healthcare, while funneling millions to Trump\u2019s ballroom. Unacceptable,\u201d Jayapal said. <\/p>\n

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-New Mexico) similarly panned the revelation that $300 million in taxpayer funds could go toward building the ballroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to Donald Trump\u2019s America. Where families and people living on the edge have lost healthcare, can\u2019t afford groceries, & the President is using your taxpayer dollars to build a ballroom & host fights on the White House lawn,\u201d Stansbury wrote in a Bluesky post.<\/p>\n

A majority of Americans oppose Trump\u2019s ballroom project. Asked in a poll in April whether they backed the construction of the ballroom, 56 percent said they did not, while just 28 percent said they did. Notably, that poll indicated to respondents that the project would cost $400 million, and would be funded entirely by private donors. <\/p>\n

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