WASHINGTON — The construction project newly underway at the White House for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom is causing mounting backlash, which the administration is dubbing as "manufactured outrage" and “pearl clutching.”

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he construction project newly underway at the White House for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom is causing mounting backlash, which the administration is dubbing as "manufactured outrage" and “pearl clutching.”

Images of the demolition surfaced online on Monday and Trump took to Truth Social to declare that ground had been broken to start construction on his “new, big, beautiful White House Ballroom”

Democratic House leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York argued on Wednesday that his party was working to defend Americans a

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