{"id":969982,"date":"2025-10-28T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969982"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:49:01","slug":"google-apple-microsoft-meta-among-tech-giants-donating-to-trumps-300-million-white-house-ballroom-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/google-apple-microsoft-meta-among-tech-giants-donating-to-trumps-300-million-white-house-ballroom-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta among tech giants donating to Trump\u2019s $300 million White House ballroom project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has begun the demolition of the White House East Wing to make way for a new ballroom, and the project is being financially backed by some of the largest technology companies. According to a report, the White House released a donor list showing that the estimated $300 million project\u2014up from a $200 million estimate in July\u2014is being entirely funded by private, tax-deductible donations made to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has consistently vowed that no taxpayer money would be used for the build, Fortune reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has begun the demolition of the White House East Wing to make way for a new ballroom, and the project is being financially backed by some of the largest technology companies. According to a report, the White House released a donor list showing that the estimated $300 million project\u2014up from a $200 million estimate in July\u2014is being entirely funded by private, tax-deductible donations made to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall. President Donald Trump has consistently vowed that no taxpayer money would be used for the build, Fortune reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}