Leavitt: "...at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority..." [View all]
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that President Donald Trump's "main priority" at the moment is constructing a $200 million ballroom addition to the White House.
When she was asked whether Trump had any plans for additional White House renovations, she replied, "Not to my knowledge, no, but he's a builder at heart, clearly. And so his heart and his mind is always churning about how to improve things here on the White House grounds. But at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
Leavitt possibly only meant "priority" in the narrow sense of what Trump wants to do with the White House, and not government in general — but the ambiguous way she phrased it prompted immediate criticism and attacks from Democratic lawmakers, staffers, and pundits, who seized on her remarks on social media to mean that Trump cares more about adding luxury amenities onto the White House than he does about reopening the federal government, paying millions of civil servants, or restoring health care subsidies to working people.
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