Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for an investigation into the private donations funding the president’s planned $300 million White House ballroom.

In a statement to the Guardian Thursday, the Massachusetts senator said the next independent Department of Justice should investigate the ballroom, which she described as potentially “a golden crime scene.”

The controversial ballroom construction, announced by the White House in July, has continued to grow in size and cost and is now planned to reach 90,000 square feet, accommodate up to 1,000 guests, and dwarf the main White House building.

The president has repeatedly claimed that the gold-filled ballroom will be privately funded by donors—whose names so far include Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and Google—and sources have sug

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