Thought you might be interested to see that Public Citizen is suing over Trump’s
obnoxious ballroom. More info below.

- Lisa Gilbert, Co-President of Public Citizen

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We have a new lawsuit against the Trump regime to tell you about.

Here are the basics:

* As you are no doubt aware, in October, Donald Trump had the entire East Wing
of the White House demolished.

* In its place, he intends to erect a humongous gilded ballroom — the estimated
cost of which was initially $200 million, then $300 million, and now $400
million. Don’t be surprised if it rises to a billion or more before all is
said and done.

* All so Donald Trump can curry favor with billionaire CEOs and try to impress
the authoritarian foreign leaders he longs to emulate.

* Two days after demolition of the East Wing began, Public Citizen — under the
Freedom of Information Act — called for the administration to publicly
release records related to the construction of the ballroom.

* In defiance of the law, Trump officials have refused to do so.

* So we are taking them to court.

As Wendy Liu, the Public Citizen attorney leading this lawsuit, told the
national media, “The Trump administration is withholding information that the
American people have a right to know.”

Public Citizen’s Jon Golinger, who submitted the Freedom of Information Act
request, added:

“The American people have the right to know who’s doing what to the People’s
House, and we are going to find the facts.”

By the way, this is the 25th lawsuit Public Citizen has filed against the
administration since Donald Trump returned to power almost one year ago.

Are these lawsuits alone enough to fully defeat Trump and MAGA? Of course not.
But are they a meaningful part of the pushback that is the only chance we have
to collectively save our country? No doubt about it.

What you and Public Citizen are doing together matters. What hundreds of other
organizations, big and small, are doing matters. What millions upon millions of
our fellow Americans are doing matters. We believe that to our core. We take
solace in that. And we draw inspiration from that. We hope you do, too.

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For justice,

- Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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