WASHINGTON -- New images available Thursday appear to show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished to make way for President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the demolition as she faced questions from reporters at Thursday's briefing.

Trump initially said in July that the project would not interfere with the existing White House structure. Then this week, as crews began to raze the East Wing, an official said the "entirety of the East Wing will be modernized" as the massive 90,000 square foot ballroom is built.

By Thursday, satellite images from Planet Labs PBC showed the East Wing reduced to rubble.

"This is the People's House. Why not inform the public of that change and when it was decided that the East Wing

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