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The Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal would remove hundreds of programs from its internal “professional degree” list—cutting the list from roughly 2,000 programs to under 600—and specifical...
The White House historically has not contained a traditional , but a contentious $250 million ballroom project in the East Wing is currently under construction and is slated for completion before the ...
Several presidents have overseen major changes to the White House across two centuries: early construction and rebuilds (George Washington, James Madison), turn-of-the-century and early 20th-century a...
President Donald Trump’s 2025 plan to construct a privately funded, roughly $200–$250 million ballroom and associated East Wing alterations is presented by multiple accounts as the most significant st...
News coverage shows the Trump administration’s Education Department has proposed or begun implementing rules that would narrow which graduate programs are treated as “professional degrees,” with nursi...
Oversight of White House renovation is a layered mix of advisory federal commissions, preservation committees, and ultimately the President and the Executive Office — but those advisory bodies lack ab...
The U.S. Department of Education’s late‑2025 reworking of the federal “professional degree” list removed a broad set of graduate programs from that category — including nursing, education (teaching ma...
Available reporting shows the White House said the $300 million ballroom and removal of the East Wing are being financed by private donors rather than regular taxpayer appropriations, and the administ...
The available reporting shows , which included a 2009 basketball court and a privately funded overhaul of the private residence and Oval Office. Contemporary accounts emphasize that the Obamas paid fo...
White House renovations — including the recently reported demolition of part of the East Wing for a ballroom project announced in 2025 — raise immediate questions about , regulatory review, and histor...
The Department of Education’s proposed redefinition would sharply narrow which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” concentrating federal high-loan eligibility primarily on medicine, l...
The major White House gut-and-rebuild project that began in 1948 (work ran roughly 1948–1952) was overseen by a committee and carried out under the authority of the federal government with engineering...
Contemporary reporting and official statements say the design of the new White House State Ballroom was commissioned to McCrery Architects (led by James/Jim McCrery) and construction work on the proje...
The available analyses do not identify measured, authoritative dimensions for the largest ballroom owned by the Trump Organization; instead, public debate centers on a tied to a White House project, w...
The core, corroborated changes in the 2025 White House ballroom renovation include the construction of a large new permanent event space replacing elements of the East Wing and removal of at least par...
The reporting converges on a small set of firms as the principal players in the 2025 White House renovation: as lead designer, as the primary builder, and as the engineering firm; the project is descr...
The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) shapes federal project reviews through , but the White House itself is treated as exempt from Section 106 review, creating a legal distinction between sta...
The oversight of architectural and design aspects of White House renovations is shared among several bodies, with the Committee for the Preservation of the White House playing a central, specialized r...
The White House began demolishing part of the East Wing on October 21, 2025 to make way for a proposed $250 million ballroom, ; however, federal oversight bodies and preservation groups say formal app...
The short answer is: ; federal processes and exemptions appear to govern review and oversight instead. Reporting from mid‑2025 shows debate between federal oversight mechanisms, historic‑preservation ...