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A review of a contract relating to the proposed construction of a White House ballroom indicates that the project will require hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds — despite previous promises from the Trump administration that it wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything.

As costs for the project began to rise, President Donald Trump reiterated in late March that funds for the ballroom’s construction wouldn’t come from the federal government.

“This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump said at the time.

But according to a new report from The Washington Post, a summary of plans crafted by Virginia-based Clark Construction — the contractor tasked with building the new ballroom — showed that half of the project’s funding would indeed be derived from taxpayers.

That analysis was formulated three weeks prior to Trump’s promise that no taxpayer dollars would fund the project.

Republican Senators Push for $400M in Taxpayer Funds to Build Trump’s Ballroom

What’s more, the cost of the project has soared up to $600 million, according to that summary. Half of that amount, around $300 million, would come........

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