Justice Department cites dinner shooting to press preservationists to drop Trump ballroom suit0

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• April 27, 2026

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is using the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday to try to pressure preservationists to drop their lawsuit over his planned $400 million ballroom on the site of the former East Wing of the White House. “It’s time to build the ballroom,” acting Attorney General