Trump's White House ballroom gets final approval despite judge's ruling halting work

[Poor Richard Saunders]

Teddy Roosevelt built one wing of the White House without Congressional approval.

Do you think that because you are in a cult?
It's interesting that Congress appropriated funds specifically for building that building but you think they didn't approve anything.

Life in the West Wing

Theodore Roosevelt's temporary office building is known today as the West Wing. His six children and White House staff were crowded on the second floor of the White House. Congress appropriated $65,000 for the construction of a temporary, one-story office building just west of the White House. The White House interior was also restored in 1902

Congress even specifically allocated money to pay for the design of that building you claim they didn't approve.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsl.llsl-c56/?pdfPage=670

EXECUTIVE MANSION: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Execu-tive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For continuing plans for extending the Executive Mansion, pre-pared in the office of the engineer officer in charge of public build-ings and grounds, for completion of drawings, model and specifica-tions, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, six thou-sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have the employment of all persons connected with this work.

FDR added a bunker under it along with major mods to the East Wing without Congressional approval.

Truman virtually gutted the interior to update the building without Congressional oversight.

It seems you are batting .0000 on this. Truman asked Congress to create a commission for the renovation and both the Senate and the House appointed members to that commission.

Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (Record Group 220) | Harry S. Truman

The records of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion include meeting minutes and correspondence about the renovation of the White House during the administration of President Harry S. Truman. [Administrative Information | Agency History Note | Collection Description | Series...

www.trumanlibrary.gov

On April 14, 1949, a law was enacted creating the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion (CREM), which was comprised of six members. The President, the House of Representatives, and the Senate each appointed two members to the Commission. The members of the commission were Senator Kenneth D. McKellar (the chairman), Senator Edward Martin, Representative J. Harry McGregor, Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Richard E. Dougherty, and Douglas W. Orr. Major General Glen E. Edgerton became Executive Director of the Commission. The Commission was in charge of the reconstruction, and used consultants to ensure the safety, efficiency, and practicality of the renovation.

The Many White House Renovations Through the Years

As a judge ordered President Trump to pause construction on his proposed ballroom, AD takes a look back at the history of design updates to America’s most famous residence

www.architecturaldigest.com

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5567233-white-house-renovations-timeline/

Has the White House ever been renovated or changed?

www.whitehousehistory.org

I asked
When did any President tear down one wing of the White House without Congressional approval. You have specifically avoiding answering my question.

Trump tore up the rose garden and turned it into a cement slab and I didn't call that illegal because that renovation was a renovation and not a tear down of part of the building. Tearing down a historic building is different from tearing up some roses outside that building.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Do you think that because you are in a cult?
It's interesting that Congress appropriated funds specifically for building that building but you think they didn't approve anything.

Life in the West Wing

Theodore Roosevelt's temporary office building is known today as the West Wing. His six children and White House staff were crowded on the second floor of the White House. Congress appropriated $65,000 for the construction of a temporary, one-story office building just west of the White House. The White House interior was also restored in 1902

Congress even specifically allocated money to pay for the design of that building you claim they didn't approve.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsl.llsl-c56/?pdfPage=670

EXECUTIVE MANSION: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Execu-tive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For continuing plans for extending the Executive Mansion, pre-pared in the office of the engineer officer in charge of public build-ings and grounds, for completion of drawings, model and specifica-tions, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, six thou-sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have the employment of all persons connected with this work.


It seems you are batting .0000 on this. Truman asked Congress to create a commission for the renovation and both the Senate and the House appointed members to that commission.

Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (Record Group 220) | Harry S. Truman

The records of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion include meeting minutes and correspondence about the renovation of the White House during the administration of President Harry S. Truman. [Administrative Information | Agency History Note | Collection Description | Series...

www.trumanlibrary.gov

On April 14, 1949, a law was enacted creating the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion (CREM), which was comprised of six members. The President, the House of Representatives, and the Senate each appointed two members to the Commission. The members of the commission were Senator Kenneth D. McKellar (the chairman), Senator Edward Martin, Representative J. Harry McGregor, Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Richard E. Dougherty, and Douglas W. Orr. Major General Glen E. Edgerton became Executive Director of the Commission. The Commission was in charge of the reconstruction, and used consultants to ensure the safety, efficiency, and practicality of the renovation.

I asked
When did any President tear down one wing of the White House without Congressional approval. You have specifically avoiding answering my question.

Trump tore up the rose garden and turned it into a cement slab and I didn't call that illegal because that renovation was a renovation and not a tear down of part of the building. Tearing down a historic building is different from tearing up some roses outside that building.

Appropriating money is a far cry from congress having control over the project. In Trump's case he's using privately donated funds from citizens to do the work. Why should Congress get any say in that?

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

Appropriating money is a far cry from congress having control over the project.

Wow. Just wow. I don't know how stupid you want to be but that is pretty stupid. Who said Congress has to have control over the project? Giving the money authorizes the project.

In Trump's case he's using privately donated funds from citizens to do the work. Why should Congress get any say in that?

Because the White House doesn't belong to Trump. Trump is NOT a king. He doesn't own the executive branch buildings.