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Ben Ferguson: “It was not built for what our government is today. Even the…”

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So, like, if you wanted to break just to get away, we would go over there and you'd give a treat, play the dog, throw, throw the ball outside on the White House lawn. But it was also very tiny because it just, it. It was not built for what our government is today. Even the size of staff, like the White House, the First lady staff was nothing. And the First Lady's role was nothing compared to what it is in 2025. So when they're like, we're going to expand this out in the east side, it's like, that makes sense. (25:58–26:05)

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Asserts that the White House was not originally built to accommodate the current size of government staff.

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