Trump plans spending $377M on executive residence renovations - and wants $174M more

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump plans to spend more than $377 million renovating the White House executive residence in fiscal 2026 — and is estimating another $174 million on top of it for the next year, according to the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request.

The budget document, which proposes slashing domestic programs to help fund a $1.5 trillion bump to defense spending, estimates spending $377 million in fiscal 2026 under an account for repairs and renovations to the executive residence. That’s a mammoth 866 percent increase over the $39 million estimated to have been spent in fiscal 2025 on sprucing up the area of the White House where the president lives.....

The budget is also asking that $350 million of the $377 million figure be counted as mandatory spending, a classification used for programs that Congress must fund by statute, such as Social Security or Medicare. Granting that spending such a designation would essentially force congressional appropriators to fund the renovations at no less than $350 million. However, the budget request is mostly a statement of priorities, which lawmakers can and routinely do simply ignore.

When asked why the budget requests the renovation spending be made mandatory, the spokesperson observed that private donations being used to fund Trump’s new ballroom are being held at the National Park Service. The person refused to elaborate.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/trump-plans-spending-377m-on-executive-residence-renovations-and-wants-174m-more-00858810

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Trump plans spending 7M on executive residence renovations – and wants 4M more

— Politico (@politico.com) 2026-04-03T22:28:37Z

[pfitz59]

1. Easier to hide the grift

with big numbers.

[EarlG]

2. From October last year:

Trump said on social media that the ballroom won't cost taxpayers a dime because it is being privately funded by “many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/9-things-to-know-about-the-250-million-ballroom-trump-is-adding-to-the-white-house

[buzzycrumbhunger]

3. Fuck him.

We’ve seen your “budget” for the next year. Just die already, you piece of shite.

[ChicagoTeamster]

7. Let's go bloodclot

[buzzycrumbhunger]

11. I'm not picky

Stroke, heart attack, runaway bus, falling branch, sniper (a real one), bunker cave-in, self-inflicted whatever. Bonus if he simply dies on the toilet like Elvis as he shits himself in a drugged stupor. (Yeah, I realize that might be hard to tell apart from his usual stupor… )

If “checks and balances” refuse to do their jobs then yes, whatever ridiculous demise the powers can be decide to visit upon him will do.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Let's go blood clots

Link to tweet

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. He's trying to rip us off as much and as soon as he can

before the next Congess takes over. He's in panic mode.

[Hey Joe]

5. Waste and fraud in government?

Thy name is Donald Trump.
Grift, graft and corruption is his most urgent
priority. The cruelty is the cherry on top.
So tired of this garbage human.

[Pisces]

6. Defund Trump

[twodogsbarking]

8. He could ask Mexico.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Trump seeks 'mammoth' amount for even more White House renovations: report

These numbers are crazy

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-04-03T23:20:22.854Z

https://www.rawstory.com/2676663322/

President Donald Trump seeks hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate the White House residence, according to a new budget request.

The administration’s fiscal 2026 proposal includes more than $377 million “for repairs and renovations to the executive residence,” with another $174 million projected for 2027, according to budget documents reported by Politico.

That represents “a mammoth 866 percent increase over the $39 million estimated to have been spent in fiscal 2025 on sprucing up the area of the White House where the president lives.”....

Trump has made upgrading the White House complex a priority in his second term.

“At the center of that effort is the proposed new White House ballroom, a roughly $400 million project that would dramatically expand the complex’s capacity for large-scale events,” Politico reported. “The plan envisions a sprawling addition capable of hosting hundreds of guests at once, replacing the current reliance on temporary tents on the South Lawn for state dinners and major receptions.”

[thesquanderer]

10. I guess he wants to bulldoze the rest of it. (n/t)

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. How does he intend to use it?

This is our money he's talking about while proposing to take away even more healthcare services. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: He wants us all to die so he can play war and live in increasing luxury.

[forgotmylogin]

15. He has no intention of leaving.

He was quoted saying the White House was a "dump". By the time the renovations are done he should be out of office, so "his" White House exists for the next hundred whatever years.

[FakeNoose]

13. He will tear down the White House - DON'T LET HIM DO IT!!!

Tell him to go live in NYC or Mar A Lago, he can't do anything more to our White House.
If he hates it so much, why did he take the job?

[Bayard]

14. I thought a judge already put a hold on his, "improvements"

Why can't this guy get it through his thick skull that the White House doesn't belong to him to do what he wants with it? Millions and millions of our dollars on tacky gold shit, while he's talking about cutting Medicare/Medicaid, and blowing a minimum of one BILLION bucks a day on his Iran war.

His cheese has definitely slipped off his cracker!

[Ziggysmom]

16. I wish we still had leaders like past Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Remember his

monthly Golden Fleece Awards? He’d need to award them every minute now the way politics has turned from being the voice of the people to the playground of the wealthy. This article about Bill from the 2022 Cap Times is a good read. I have great memories of meeting him with my father at the Wisconsin State Fair.

https://captimes.com/news/government/before-money-ruled-politics-how-william-proxmire-sold-himself-to-wisconsin/article_742dd3ec-48c9-5a32-9e87-002db30ecc36.html