Washington – The White House is suspending public tours due to The construction of a 90,000 square feet dance hall initiated by President Donald Trump, said a White House official.
The official did not provide a timeline for when the routes would resume, saying that only the suspension is temporary,
The components can generally request tours of the White House through its members of the Congress, and several members declared on their websites that the White House tours stopped.
The pause, reported for the first time by Fox News, marks the greatest public impact so far of the construction project, which the White House announced last month. The suspension occurs only a few months after the tours resumed during the Trump administration at the end of February. Thousands of people visit the White House every year, according to the Historical Association of the White House.
Senator Brian Schatz’s office, D-Hawaii, said on his website that he could not submit tour requests from September “due to the current construction in the White House.”
Similarly, the Office of the representative Eugene Vindman, D-Virginia, said in place that as of September, “the White House will undergo extensive renewals. As a result, all the white house tours are postponed indefinitely.”
Other offices, including Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA.; Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD; Rep. Virginia Foxx, RN.C.; and the representative Sean Castten, D-Bill.; Let’s say on its websites that the White House is stopping tours from September, but does not provide a reason.
“Oh really?” Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-minn., He said in a position to X. “School trips. Families. Do all are excluded indefinitely by the construction of a dance hall?”
The White House announced in July that the White House would begin the construction of the dance hall in September. The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said at that time that previous administrations also wanted a great space for events, and that “President Trump has expressed his commitment to solve this problem in the name of future administrations and the American people.”
Trump has remodeled the decoration of the White House in its first months ago in the office, adorning the oval office in gold decoration and installing a patio in the Rosas Garden. But the expansion of the dance room marks the greatest change in the historic building.
Trump has said that the dance hall, which Leavitt said it will cost $ 200 million, would be funded by him and other donors.
