A federal appeals court late Friday allowed construction to continue on President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom until June, just a day after a federal judge halted progress.
The three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., wrote in an order Friday that construction can continue both on the above-ground, 90,000-square-foot ballroom and the underground military bunker that Trump has included in the $400 million project to replace the East Wing.
The order scheduled oral arguments over the legality of the ballroom construction for June 5.
The court's move pauses U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's Thursday order that blocked any above-ground ballroom construction from going into effect. The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.
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