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The real reason Trump is building the ballroom
Donald Trump's East Wing ballroom project has quietly ballooned from a promised $200 million "privately funded" renovation to a potential $1.4 billion taxpayer-funded construction project, with a hidden underground bunker featuring missile-resistant steel, drone-proof roofing, bomb shelters, and an underground hospital beneath it. After repeatedly promising "zero taxpayer dollars," Trump is now calling it "a small deal" while simultaneously cutting biodefense research, slashing NIH funding, and defunding the programs that protect ordinary Americans. When leaders build bunkers to hide from the…
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