Granite building to be painted white -- Will cost taxpayers $7.5 million to placate War-era POTUS

Trump unveils "plan" to paint a near-to-White HOUSE

official building -- is NOT ONLY costly

it will damage stone and harm the structural sounding

and the system of reviews that protect such

federal building complexes

washingtonpost. com today July 24, 2026

reporter / analysis by Philip Kennicott, COLUMNIST

Trump's Plan to Paint

the EISENHOWER is about

more than damaging stone

National Capital Planning Commission must first 

approve the cost of the

paint job

$7.5 million

The

EISENHOWER

EXECUTIVE

OFFICE 

BUILDING