Republican Senator Thom Tillis told ABC News today. We're talking about building a ballroom when we're trying to get the economy squared away. The timing is bad. Your thoughts on this? Yeah, it's actually The facade on the outside of the East Wing and the President and a group of donors are actually paying for it. So this is not about bad timing on this. This is something that's happened in the last 125 years. Multiple presidents have added on to the White House. (01:49–01:55)
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Asserts that the facade renovation of the East Wing is funded by the President and donors, not public funds.
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