John Fetterman Downplays Concerns Over White House Ballroom | EUROtoday

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) mentioned President Donald Trump’s new $200 million ballroom within the White House will likely be completed in a “tasteful and historical kind of a way.”

“I mean they’re not putting in a Dave and Buster’s kind of situation here,” Fetterman informed Fox News on Saturday. “Upgrading some of these facilities seems pretty normal overall.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned Trump and donors will finance the undertaking. Renovations will start in September, and it’s anticipated to be completed earlier than Trump leaves workplace ― nonetheless, building has seemingly already begun as a result of White House excursions have been placed on pause.

While Fetterman mentioned he doesn’t have any “strong opinions” on the ballroom, he mentioned he isn’t going to “freak out” or make some “weird demands” or have a listening to on it, seemingly referring to his fellow Congresspeople calling out Trump in regards to the ballroom.

“Cutting things, taking things away from you and not giving it to some place that needed it,” he mentioned. “Giving it to the big shots who run the show, Donald Trump at the top of the list.”

Fetterman informed Fox News that the brand new ballroom is “an investment” within the White House and mentioned it gained’t be completed earlier than Trump’s time period is up.

Fetterman’s remarks on the ballroom had been extra constructive than his Democratic counterparts, like Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who referred to as it a “gigantic boondoggle,” or Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who questioned Trump’s authority to transform the White House. This yr, Fetterman, who was as soon as described as progressive, has proven extra loyalty to Trump and Republicans by siding with Republicans on denying immigrants due course of and voting to verify Pam Bondi, who denied the outcomes of the 2020 election, as head of the justice division.