Jack by the hedge
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Q: You have repeatedly said taxpayers would not pay for the ballroom. Why should taxpayers now be on the hook for a billion dollars?
TRUMP: Well they're not. That's for many other projects. That's for projects having to do with safety in a certain section of the White House grounds. We're putting up $400m to do the ballroom section of the ballroom.
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"A certain section" appears to mean under the ballroom.
So Trump's unauthorised East wing development is actually to cost $1.4b, and the taxpayers are to be saddled with the bill for everything except the gaudy, grandiose showpiece sitting on top of it.
It's all escalated a bit from the $200m, $250m, $300m, $400m he told anyone about.


