Demolition work on the East Wing of the White House began on Monday, Oct. 20 under President Donald Trump as the federal government shutdown entered its 21st day.

Video footage from Washington D.C. shows part of the home shared by the United States president and his family crumble to the ground as billows of smoke rose into the air above the White House in what marked the first time a president ordered major construction in nearly eight decades. Photos from the scene show cranes near the White House as the next steps to Trump's nearly $200 million, 90,000-square-foot expansion of the East Wing began.

The construction is part of Trump's plan to build a ballroom on the eastern side of the White House. The president, during an event in the East Room on Oct. 20, said ballroom construct

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