Trump Has $377 Million To Spend On Further White House Renovations This Year, Figures Show

President Donald Trump has $377 cardinal disposable to thief renovate and revamp nan White House for nan 2026 fiscal year, according to figures successful nan latest charismatic fund request.

The immense sum relates to donations held by nan National Parks Service, pinch different $174 cardinal marked down for 2027. Both figures correspond a important jump connected nan $39 cardinal listed nether 2025.

The management is besides requesting a further $2 cardinal this twelvemonth and $6 cardinal adjacent twelvemonth to spell towards upkeep and information astatine 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the petition reveals.

It does not spell into item connected precisely really nan money will beryllium spent but a spokesperson for nan Office of Management and Budget told The Independent nan backing would spell towards repair, renovations, building and information costs.

The Independent reached retired to nan White House for much accusation connected its plans but was directed backmost to nan OMB.

Trump has already made extended changes to nan executive mansion since returning to powerfulness successful January past year, opening pinch nan Oval Office, which he has redesigned pinch as overmuch golden arsenic possible.

As CNN noted past year: “There is golden everywhere: caller golden vermeil figurines connected nan mantle and medallions connected nan fireplace, golden eagles connected nan broadside tables, gilded Rococo mirrors connected nan doors, and, nestled successful nan pediments supra nan doorways, diminutive golden cherubs shipped successful from Mar-a-Lago.”

“Even nan distant power for nan tv down nan hallway is wrapped successful gilt,” nan web added.

Trump besides turned a walkway betwixt nan residence and nan West Wing into a Presidential “Wall of Fame,” lined pinch gilt-framed portraits of nan 47 commanders-in-chief – pinch nan objection of his predecessor Joe Biden, who is represented by a banal image of an autopen, a joke astir his expected reliance connected nan technology.

Trump has besides decked retired nan Lincoln Bedroom successful gleaming achromatic marble, declaring that he had made it much due to nan Civil War era than nan Art Deco style it was fixed during its past makeover successful nan 1940s.

But topping moreover that has been nan demolition of nan East Wing, accepted hangout of nan first lady, to make measurement for nan $400 cardinal ballroom he insists has been needed for much than a period arsenic a abstraction for entertaining overseas dignitaries and conducting affairs of state.

Last week, District Court Judge Richard Leon sided pinch a title brought by nan National Trust for Historic Preservation and ordered nan task beryllium paused until Congress authorized it to move forward, causing Trump to complain: “Basically he’s saying, I request legislature approval. And he’s truthful wrong.

“This is being financed privately. It’s a aid that’s being fixed by companies, very rich | companies, very rich | people, truthful that for 150 years, they’ve wanted a ballroom here… We’re going to person nan finest ballroom, I believe, anyplace successful nan world.”

The president is challenging Judge Leon’s ruling and has insisted he is assured of victory.

His boy Donald Trump Jr is reportedly eyeing nan completed task arsenic a possible early wedding venue should he wed Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson.