The White House said the East Wing renovations were in line with what other presidents have done for the last 100 years.

The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building

Demolition of the White House's East Wing began on Monday, with bulldozers visibly removing a side of the building to make room for President Trump's planned ballroom. Meanwhile, the government shutdown has reached Day 21.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump adds a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

Demolition crews Monday began ripping down the facade of the White House’s East Wing to build President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom. The White House went ahead with the demolition “despite not yet having sign-off from the National Capital Planning Commission,

The sight of bulldozers smashing into the White House's East Wing this week — almost three weeks into a federal shutdown — is sending shockwaves among certain circles in Washington, with some wondering: Is this even allowed?

President Donald Trump has begun demolition of the East Wing as he remakes the White House in his image, ignoring rules, breaking promises and taking a wrecking ball to the approval process in an echo of the strategies he deployed in Florida and New York as he built his real estate empire.

The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing to build President Donald Trump's ballroom.