Subject: Re: The ballroom, another Trump FAIL
By combining it with the $300 million donated by private citizens and companies.

But they would need Congressional authorization to be able to accept those private donations and use them for this purpose. The President doesn't have any authority to just take money from private parties for his own preferred uses, and he doesn't have the authority to let private parties build things on government land. Well, at least the judge has found as a preliminary matter that the Administration hasn't successfully identified any source of such claimed authority.