Trump Insists Ballroom’s Skyrocketing Cost Is No Big Deal

President Donald Trump dismissed claims Wednesday that the White House ballroom has suffered cost overrun after its price tag skyrocketed from $400 million in private donations to $1 billion sourced from American taxpayers. Trump claimed that there was no cost overrun because he’d previously announced that the cost of construction had gone up. “The only reason the cost has changed is because, after deep rooted studies, it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than...