{"id":523640,"date":"2026-01-17T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:24:10","slug":"trump-quietly-appoints-4-members-to-commission-that-will-review-his-white-house-ballroom-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523640\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump quietly appoints 4 members to commission that will review his White House ballroom plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump<\/a> this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels<\/a> reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom.<\/p>\n

One of the four is James McCrery<\/a>, an architect who had led the now $400 million ballroom project until Trump replaced him late last year<\/a>. McCrery also served on the commission during Trump’s first term as president. <\/p>\n

The White House announced the project last summer and Trump later demolished the East Wing to make room for the ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation<\/a> has sued in federal court to halt construction until the fine arts panel and a second federal commission give their approval.<\/p>\n

The four new members were revealed in court papers filed Thursday by a White House official as part of that lawsuit. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The commission, which normally has seven members, has been vacant for months. Trump dismissed six commissioners last fall after the East Wing was demolished. A seventh commissioner, who was the panel\u2019s chair, resigned after Trump took office last year because their term had expired.<\/p>\n

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has accused the Trump administration of violating federal laws<\/a> by starting the project before submitting it for independent reviews by the commissions and Congress, as well as the public.<\/p>\n

The three remaining members appointed by Trump to the Commission of Fine Arts are: Mary Anne Carter of Tennessee; Roger Kimball of Connecticut; and Matthew Taylor of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The National Capital Planning Commission, the second federal panel with oversight of construction on federal land, including the White House grounds, heard an initial presentation about the ballroom<\/a> at its meeting on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[232865,347,356,37343,57,50,80,61,67,132,68,93],"class_list":["post-523640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-232865","tag-article","tag-courts","tag-decor","tag-general-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115912550934370573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}