Amid backlash over partial demolition of East Wing, White House reportedly intends to send blueprints

The White House has not submitted plans for Donald Trump’s new ballroom to the federal agency that oversees construction of federal buildings, though demolition is already under way.

On Tuesday, the White House told Reuters it intended to send plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, an agency that typically approves and monitors construction on federal buildings. Demolition began earlier this week, with reporters taking video of a backhoe ripping out chunks of the White House’s exterior.

The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing a senior administration official, that the ballroom plans will mean the demolition of the entire East Wing.

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    Well, the exits and command controls wouldn’t be very secret if they filed them:

    The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a secure emergency underground shelter for the president.

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      Now that’s interesting. (More info here.)

      I wonder what fun listening devices and other random spy shit are being planted there. A future President should probably not use that bunker until the “ballroom” above it is replaced with a structure that wasnt built by someone so obviously under foreign influence.