President Donald Trump is reportedly obsessing over making his planned White House ballroom far larger than the project’s architect recommends, even as Americans struggle to afford food and electricity as the economy slows.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has been clashing behind the scenes with architect James McCrery about the size of the ballroom, with Trump pushing for the addition to be 90,000 square feet—nearly double the 55,000-square-foot White House.

Multiple administration officials have privately admitted that Trump is micromanaging the project, to the extent that a model of the ballroom is now prominently featured in the Oval Office, the Post reports.

Trump has circumvented the traditional approval process for a major construction project of this nature, which has in

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