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发布于2026年4月16日，美国东部时间中午12:49
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一名用于修建新白宫宴会厅的起重机于2026年4月5日被拍到在白宫旁作业。
联邦法官再次下令唐纳德·特朗普总统暂停白宫一处大型新宴会厅的施工，驳回了总统试图绕过此前针对该项目的裁决的做法——特朗普声称项目需继续推进以应对国家安全理由，法官称这一说法“不诚实”。
美国联邦地区法院资深法官理查德·利昂周四作出的这一裁决，是这场围绕争议性宴会厅的漫长法律风波的最新进展。法官上月曾表示，由于国会未明确批准该项目，其施工属非法行为。
利昂是前总统乔治·W·布什任命的法官，他作出了一项例外规定，允许施工人员继续在拟建宴会厅下方安装高度精密的掩体。但特朗普辩称，整个项目都符合这一例外条款，因为地面建筑“作为一个整体推进了关键的国家安全目标”。
利昂在最新裁决中严厉驳斥了这一论点，指责总统对他此前的裁决作出了“令人难以置信，甚至可以说是不诚实”的解读。
“被告方辩称，整个宴会厅建设项目从头到尾都属于安全与安保例外范畴，因此可以不受限制地继续施工，”他在这份长达10页的裁决书中写道，“这既不是对我的禁令的合理解读，也不是正确解读！”
“国家安全不是继续开展原本非法活动的空白支票，而事后声称地面宴会厅‘与一系列安保设施密不可分’，也不是本院重新权衡公平性或重新考虑初步禁制令的理由！”利昂写道。
法官重申，施工人员可以继续修建掩体，也可以开展“为确保白宫及其场地的安全、安保和结构完整性”所需的其他工作。但他明确表示，除非国会批准该宴会厅项目，否则不得继续进行地面以上的施工，仅可开展掩盖和固定地下在建设施的工作。
美国司法部已就利昂的裁决提起上诉。
预见到上诉可能，利昂将裁决的执行时间推迟了一周。但他警告白宫，在此期间开展的任何地面以上施工工作，可能需要根据案件后续进展予以拆除。
“我无意也没有打算被强迫担任施工经理，”利昂写道，并补充称他相信总统会善意执行他的命令。
这一裁决作出前数日，华盛顿特区的联邦上诉法院指示利昂明确其3月份禁制令的范围，该禁制令叫停了这座近9万平方英尺宴会厅的施工。
白宫曾要求上诉法院搁置该裁决，辩称整个项目“推进了关键的国家安全目标”，因为地面建筑涉及“使用抗导弹钢柱、钢梁、防无人机屋顶材料以及防弹、防弹道和防爆玻璃窗”。
在针对该项目的诉讼中为项目辩护的司法部律师在向上诉法院提交的文件中称：“这些设施还包括掩体、医院和医疗设施、防护隔断以及顶级机密军事设施、空调、供暖、通风系统等。”
但去年起诉阻止该宴会厅施工的美国国家历史保护信托基金一再表示，特朗普错误地将掩体与地面扩建工程混为一谈。
“白宫场地缺少大型宴会厅并非国家安全紧急状况。在过去两个世纪里，历任总统都没有因为没有大型宴会厅而无法在白宫任职，也没有使用过东翼地下掩体约80年，”该组织在本周提交给利昂的法庭文件中称。
“被告方称掩体需要‘足够的地面覆盖’，但从未解释为何只有总统青睐的70英尺高的宴会厅——而非简单的地面楼板——才能满足要求，”信托基金的律师写道。
该组织总裁兼首席执行官卡罗尔·奎伦在一份声明中表示，她对“法院维持初步禁制令、在国会批准该项目前叫停白宫宴会厅的地面施工”感到欣慰。
特朗普周四在社交媒体上猛烈抨击，称这一举措是出于政治动机，且威胁到国家安全。
他在Truth Social的帖子中辩称，白宫缺乏总统们“150多年来一直迫切需要和期望的”大型活动空间，并表示拟建宴会厅对于安全接待世界各国领导人和重大活动至关重要。
特朗普称，宴会厅将配备广泛的安保设施，包括“掩体、最先进的医院和医疗设施、防护隔断、顶级机密军事设施、建筑和设备、抗导弹钢柱、屋顶和横梁、防无人机天花板和屋顶、军用级通风系统以及防弹、防弹道和防爆玻璃”。
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Judge: Trump can’t claim that entire White House ballroom project is needed for national security
2026-04-16T16:49:39.021Z / CNN
By Devan Cole
Updated 48 min ago
Updated Apr 16, 2026, 3:23 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2026, 12:49 PM ET
A crane being used to construct the new White House ballroom is seen next to the White House, on April 5, 2026.
Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
A federal judge has again ordered President Donald Trump to pause construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting the president’s “disingenuous” bid to circumvent an earlier ruling against the project by claiming that it needed to proceed for national security reasons.
The ruling Thursday from senior US District Judge Richard Leon is the latest development in a winding legal saga around the controversial ballroom, which the judge said last month was being built unlawfully since Congress hadn’t expressly approved it.
Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, carved out an exception so that crews could continue working on a highly sophisticated bunker being installed under the proposed ballroom. But Trump had contended that the entire project was covered by that loophole since the above-ground structure “advances critical national-security objectives as an integrated whole.”
Leon forcefully rejected that argument in his latest decision, accusing the president of advancing an “incredible, if not disingenuous” reading of his earlier ruling.
“Defendants argue that the entire ballroom construction project, from tip to tail, falls within the safety-and-security exception and therefore may proceed unabated,” he wrote in the 10-page decision. “That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!”
“National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity, and belated assertions that the above-ground ballroom is ‘inseparable’ from an array of security features are not an occasion for this Court to reweigh the equities or reconsider the preliminary injunction!” Leon wrote.
The judge reiterated that crews could continue working on the bunker and could proceed with other work “necessary to ensure the safety, security, and structural integrity of the White House” and its grounds. But he made clear that absent congressional approval of the ballroom, no above-ground construction could continue except work to cover and secure the facilities being built underground.
The Justice Department has appealed Leon’s decision.
Anticipating the appeal, Leon delayed implementation of his ruling for one week. But he warned the White House that any above-ground work that happens during that period may need to be reversed depending on how the case plays out.
“I have no desire or intention to be dragooned into the role of construction manager,” Leon wrote, adding that he trusts the president to implement his order in good faith.
The decision comes several days after a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, instructed Leon to clarify the scope of his March injunction halting work on the nearly 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
The White House had asked the appeals court to shelve that ruling, arguing the entire project “advances critical national-security objectives” because the above-ground structure involves “the use of missile-resistant steel columns, beams, drone-proof roofing materials, and bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass windows.”
“They also include the installation of bomb shelters, hospital and medical facilities, protective partitioning, and top-secret military installations, air conditioning, heating, venting, and more,” Justice Department lawyers defending the project in a lawsuit against it told the appeals court.
But the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued last year to block construction of the ballroom, has repeatedly said Trump is erroneously conflating the bunker with the above-ground addition.
“The lack of a massive ballroom on the White House grounds is not a national-security emergency. Its absence has not prevented any past president from residing in the White House during his tenure over the past two centuries, or from using the prior East Wing bunker for approximately eighty years,” the group told Leon in court papers filed this week.
“The defendants declare that the bunker needs ‘adequate above-ground cover,’ but never explain why only the President’s preferred 70-foot-tall ballroom – and not a simple at-grade slab – would suffice,” lawyers for the Trust wrote.
Carol Quillen, the president and CEO of the group, said in a statement that it’s “pleased the court upheld the preliminary injunction and halted above-ground construction of the White House ballroom until Congress approves the project.”
Trump on Thursday lashed out on social media, calling the move politically motivated and a threat to national security.
He argued in a Truth Social post that the White House lacks a large-scale event space that presidents have “desperately wanted and desired for over 150 years,” and said the planned ballroom is critical for hosting world leaders and major events safely.
Trump said that the ballroom would include extensive security features such as “Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass.”
This story has been updated with additional responses.
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