After Saturday’s White House shooting incident, Blanche pushes for Trump’s ballroom to go forward

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the shooting incident near the White House Saturday shows the need for the ballroom President Donald Trump is building, and for the security considerations he is requesting for it. Blanche wrote in a court filing on Sunday that Saturday’s incident “underscores the critical need for top level, state of the art security at the White House, including the Ballroom.”
The filing was the latest pushback by the Trump administration against the lawsuit filed last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to block the construction of the ballroom, which Trump said would cost approximately $400 million and would be privately funded by donations. 
Blanche wrote in the filing that the ballroom project would allow Trump to “perform his constitutional duties in a safe and heavily secured facility.” He further wrote that the shooting amounted to a “second attempted assassination” on Trump “within a single month,” according to The Hill. 
The other assassination attempt Blanche was referring to was the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting, after which several Senate Republicans proposed legislation that would provide $1 billion from Congress for added security for the ballroom project. 
“The under construction East Wing Project, which is on time and under budget, includes state of the art security features to repel all attacks against the President, his family, his staff, and esteemed visitors,” Blanche wrote in the Sunday filing. “These include a heavy steel, drone proof roof, missile resistant and drone proof columns, bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass, Military grade venting for air conditioning and heating, and much more.”

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