During a recent meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission where the ballroom was discussed, White House director of management and administration Joshua Fisher said broadly that the overall ballroom project will “(enhance) mission critical functionality,” “make necessary security enhancements” and “(deliver) resilient, adaptive infrastructure aligned with future mission needs.”
Fisher was pressed on why the project broke with precedent by starting the demolition process without the commission’s approval — and he indicated that the “top-secret” work taking place underground was the motivation.
“There are some things regarding this project that are, frankly, of top-secret nature that we are currently working on. That does not preclude us from changing the above-grade structure, but that work needed to be considered when doing this project, which was not part of the NCPC process,” he said.
The White House declined CNN’s request for comment. But in a court filing last week for a case seeking to stop the East Wing construction, the White House defended the process, saying that halting the underground construction would “endanger national security and therefore impair the public interest.” It said the reasoning for this was described in a “classified declaration” attached to the case.
There was already a bunker under the East Wing. Why wouldn’t they want to update a bunker with 1940’s infrastructure?
So nonsense that CNN came to the same conclusion three months after Drey posted that video?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/politics/east-wing-secret-bunker-construction-details
There was already a bunker under the East Wing. Why wouldn’t they want to update a bunker with 1940’s infrastructure?