Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson was right when he told reporters this week that the historical home and workplace of the president has been renovated many times before.

"Teddy Roosevelt built the whole West Wing... Taft, I think added the Oval Office... Truman ripped up the whole thing to put a bowling alley in. FDR added the swimming pool, I think. Barack Obama added a basketball court," he said. "President Trump is going to add the greatest improvement in the history of the building."

But the scope and planning of the ballroom President Trump wants to build is being called unprecedented.

President Trump first floated the idea of a "much needed" 90,000 square foot ballroom back in July. He said the project would cost about $200 million and that the current footprint of the Whit

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