US Politics — Today

The Trump administration filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Friday to allow construction of a controversial $400 million White House ballroom to resume. The move escalates a bitter separation-of-powers fight between the executive branch and Congress over who controls renovations to the nation's most iconic federal property. The project is now 65% complete, leaving an enormous, 70-foot-tall steel skeleton standing as a monument to the legal battle.

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