Trump sued by preservation group seeking to halt White House ballroom construction

A nonprofit radical tasked with preserving U.S. historical sites sued President Donald Trump connected Friday, seeking to halt operation of his monolithic White House ballroom until the task receives the due federal approvals.

"No president is legally allowed to teardrop down portions of the White House without immoderate reappraisal whatsoever — not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else," the National Trust for Historic Preservation successful the United States said successful the lawsuit successful Washington, D.C., national court.

"And nary president is legally allowed to conception a ballroom connected nationalist spot without giving the nationalist the accidental to measurement in," the suit said.

The suit argues that Trump was legally required to unafraid reviews and approvals earlier demolishing the historical East Wing of the White House and opening to physique the 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

Those reviews "should person taken spot earlier the Defendants demolished the East Wing, and earlier they began operation of the Ballroom," the suit says.

The spot is asking a justice to state that the task violates aggregate laws, including the Administrative Procedure Act.

The radical besides seeks a court-ordered enactment stoppage "until the indispensable national commissions person reviewed and approved the project's plans; capable biology reappraisal has been conducted; and Congress has authorized the Ballroom's construction."

In summation to Trump, different defendants successful the lawsuit are the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior, the General Services Administration and their respective bureau heads.

White House spokesperson David Ingle told CNBC successful a statement, "President Trump has afloat ineligible authorization to modernize, renovate, and beautify the White House – conscionable similar each of his predecessors did."