US court allows Trump to resume White House ballroom work for now

On 2026-04-17, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily put on hold a lower-court injunction that had halted White House ballroom construction. The panel also set a June 5 hearing to consider whether the project should remain stopped during the appeal. The action occurred in Washington and concerned the Trump administration’s authority to build the ballroom.