2026年3月6日 / 美国东部时间下午5:52 / CBS新闻
一个保护组织再次请求联邦法官暂停白宫 grounds上由特朗普总统支持的大型宴会厅的所有建设工作。
美国国家历史保护信托基金（The National Trust for Historic Preservation）于去年12月首次就该项目提起诉讼，此前白宫突然拆除了东翼（East Wing）以腾出空间建造宴会厅，并筹集了数亿美元资金用于这个9万平方英尺的空间。
该组织在周四提交的最新法庭文件中辩称，特朗普政府在未经国会批准的情况下建造宴会厅缺乏法律授权。该组织表示，一项允许总统将资金用于白宫”改建”和”改善”的联邦法律，似乎仅适用于相对”小型”的项目，这些项目使用的是国会拨款，而非由私人捐赠资助的大规模宴会厅。
该组织称，政府”准备在未来一个月内开始地面以上的建设，这将使白宫相形见绌，不可逆转地损坏行政官邸（Executive Residence），并扭曲总统公园的场地和布局——所有这些都未经国会批准，也没有对公众意见进行有意义的考虑。”
上个月，一名联邦法官基于其他法律理由驳回了该组织要求暂停宴会厅项目的请求，包括总统缺乏宪法授权以及政府未经过必要的审查程序。
但美国联邦地区法官理查德·利昂（Richard Leon）表示，该组织本应将法律挑战集中在宴会厅项目是否超出了总统的法律权力这一问题上。
法官称，如果美国国家历史保护信托基金能够围绕这一思路重新表述其法律论点，”法院将迅速考虑，如果可行，将处理所提出的新颖且重大的问题的是非曲直。”
特朗普政府长期以来一直辩称，总统对改建白宫建筑群拥有广泛的法律授权，并表示其他总统也曾进行过类似的改建。
国家公园管理局预计宴会厅项目将于2028年夏季完工，距离特朗普任期结束不到一年。政府表示，该项目的垂直建设可能最早在下个月开始。
这一最新的法律挑战发生之际，一个负责监督华盛顿特区（D.C.）地区联邦项目的联邦委员会准备在下月初就宴会厅项目进行投票。由特朗普任命成员领导的国家首都规划委员会（National Capital Planning Commission）周四审查了宴会厅的计划并听取了公众意见，但由于”项目收到了大量公众意见”，未进行投票，一位发言人表示。
该委员会收到了数万份关于宴会厅的书面意见，其中许多意见严厉批评了宴会厅本身、突然拆除东翼的决定以及接受私人捐赠的决定。
Preservation group again asks judge to halt White House ballroom, arguing Trump administration lacks legal authority
March 6, 2026 / 5:52 PM EST / CBS News
A preservation group is once again asking a federal judge to pause all construction for a massive ballroom on the White House grounds backed by President Trump.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation first sued over the project in December, after the White House suddenly tore down the East Wing to make room for the ballroom and raised hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the 90,000-square-foot space.
In its latest court filing on Thursday, the group argued the Trump administration doesn’t have legal authority to build a ballroom without congressional approval. The group says a federal law that lets the president spend money on the “alteration” and “improvement” of the White House appears to only apply to relatively “minor” projects that use money appropriated by Congress, not a large-scale ballroom funded by private donations.
The group said the administration is “poised to commence within the next month above-grade construction that will dwarf the White House, irreversibly damage the Executive Residence, and distort the grounds and layout of President’s Park — all without Congressional approval, and all without meaningful consideration of the public’s input.”
Last month, a federal judge turned down an earlier request from the group to halt the ballroom project on other legal grounds, including that the president doesn’t have constitutional authority and that the administration hasn’t gone through the necessary reviews.
But U.S. District Judge Richard Leon suggested the group should have instead focused its legal challenges on whether the ballroom project exceeded the president’s legal power.
The judge said that if the National Trust for Historic Preservation recasts its legal arguments along those lines, “the Court will expeditiously consider it and, if viable, address the merits of the novel and weighty issues presented.”
The Trump administration has long argued that the president has broad legal authority to make changes to the White House complex, and says other presidents have made modifications.
The National Park Service expects the ballroom project to be completed in summer 2028, less than a year before the end of Mr. Trump’s term. The administration has said vertical construction on the project could start as soon as next month.
The latest legal challenge comes as a federal board that oversees D.C.-area federal projects prepares to vote on the ballroom early next month. The National Capital Planning Commission — led by Trump appointees — reviewed plans for the ballroom on Thursday and heard public comments, but did not vote due to the “large amount of public input on the project,” a spokesperson said.
The commission received tens of thousands of written comments on the ballroom, many of which were harshly critical of the ballroom itself, the decision to abruptly tear down the East Wing and the decision to accept private donations.
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