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Lorenzo Winslow, the White House architect in the 1930s, designed and oversaw the construction of the East Wing and the bunker, as well as other features of the modern-day White House, including the balcony and major interior reconstruction during Harry Truman’s presidency.
The Trump administration is planning to demolish the entirety of the White House's East Wing as early as this weekend, two senior administration officials said, part of a ballroom project championed by President Trump.
The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials. The demolition marks a significant expansion of the ballroom construction project from what President Trump said earlier this summer.
The East Wing of the White House is undergoing a more extensive renovation than initially announced during the $250 million ballroom-construction project.
Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte says pressure and sanctions are changing Vladimir Putin's calculus as Russia deals with heavy military losses in Ukraine as the war continues.
The exchange is the latest example of rising tensions between the press and the Trump administration, which has taken an adversarial approach to the White House press corps, seeking to ban some reporters from covering President Trump, restricting access to the Pentagon, and openly insulting journalists.
In a 2023 Semafor poll, dozens of Republican strategists most commonly named Posobiec as the influencer with the biggest pull among the party base. Posobiec and Kirk have many differences, Posobiec’s friends and colleagues emphasized to me.
President Donald Trump's administration said on Wednesday it struck a deal with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations and keep it eligible for federal funding in exchange for the school rolling back diversity,