Locator: 49405WHITEHOUSE.
It will be interesting to see how long the president is willing to let the government remain shut down.
My hunch: the government will start passing one bill at a time -- there are twelve appropriations bills. They can pass them one at a time. They can start with the Department of War. Then Energy. Then Interior. If Schumer is not careful, "they" may run out of money before they get to HHS.
DOD: my hunch -- the president is very, very happy with the way Pete Hegseth is running things. Those journalists that gave up their Pentagon credentials are most likely re-thinking their actions. My hunch: Pete Hegseth won't easily / quickly re-instate them.
This is simply amazing. From the linked article. Compare this with Michelle Obama growing a garden, Laura Bush decorating the White House Christmas tree.
More than three dozen organizations and individuals, including companies with business before the federal government, attended a dinner with President Trump on Wednesday evening after opening their checkbooks to support the new $250 million ballroom under construction at the White House. [I wonder what JPow thinks of this. LOL.]
Companies that sent representatives to the East Room event included Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com and Palantir Technologies, according to the White House. The guest list also featured wealthy individuals and families, such as oil billionaire Harold Hamm, Blackstone Chief Executive Steve Schwarzman and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
“Chief executives throughout history have contributed to making the White House special, and nothing of this magnitude has been done,” Trump said at the beginning of the event. He noted renovations and building projects done by past presidents, including James Monroe’s South Portico and Theodore Roosevelt’s West Wing.
The dinner was billed to “Establish the Magnificent White House Ballroom,” according to a copy of the invitation reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The invitation, which was written in Trump’s trademark gold lettering, listed the president as the event’s host.
Trump views the new ballroom as an important part of his presidential legacy. Since taking office, he has already redecorated parts of the White House complex, including the Rose Garden, Oval Office, Palm Room and Colonnade. Trump installed two large flagpoles at the north and south entrances of the White House, and regularly inspects his construction projects.
The former developer said thinking about real estate is “relaxing” for him. At one point during the dinner, the president drew open the yellow curtains in the East Room to show his guests progress on the ballroom outside.
A list of expected attendees, provided by the White House, includes:
- Altria Group Inc.
- Amazon.com Inc.
- Apple Inc.
- Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Coinbase Global
- Comcast Corp.
- Hard Rock International
- HP Inc.
- Lockheed Martin Corp.
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- Micron Technology Inc.
- Microsoft Corp.
- NextEra Energy Inc.
- Palantir Technologies Inc.
- Ripple
- Reynolds American Inc.
- T-Mobile US Inc.
- Tether
- Union Pacific Railroad
- J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
- Adelson Family Foundation
- Stefan E. Brodie
- Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
- Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
- Edward and Shari Glazer
- Harold Hamm
- Benjamin Leon, Jr.
- The Lutnick Family
- The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
- Stephen A. Schwarzman
- Konstantin Sokolov
- Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
- Paolo Tiramani
- Cameron Winklevoss
- Tyler Winklevoss
I don't see on the list:
- Tesla
- Nvidia
- AMD
- Intel
But Apple on the list is incredible.
