March 4, 2026 Trump’s Three Ballroom Stooges White House officials Blair, Scharf, and Levenbach are not qualified to sit on the National Capital Planning Commission and should not vote on Trump’s Ballroom ProjectBy Jon Golinger Download the full report 1.4 MBShare FacebookTwitterEmailBlueSkyTextThreadsNCPC website photo of James Blair, William Scharf, and Stuart Levenbach at NCPC meeting[1]IntroductionPresident Trump’s White House Ballroom Project has been a fiasco from the beginning. When the White House announced it in July 2025, Trump claimed nothing about the existing White House would be changed. On March 5, 2026, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) is slated to hold a formal public hearing, take public comment, and potentially vote to approve Trump’s White House Ballroom Project. §8701; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2013-title40/html/USCODE-2013-title40-subtitleII-partD-chap87.htm[13] “About NCPC,” NCPC website; https://www.ncpc.gov/about/[14] “About NCPC,” NCPC website; https://www.ncpc.gov/about/[15] 40 U.S.C. See Meeting Transcript, NCPC Meeting, February 5, 2026; https://www.ncpc.gov/docs/open_gov_files/transcripts/2026/2026_02_05_NCPC.pdf[19] 40 U.S.C.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2026 12:05 UTC