The Washington Post, reviewing confidential contracts and planning documents, found the administration plans to spend at least $927 million on construction projects on the White House grounds — with a gilded East Wing ballroom at the center of the overhaul. The White House budget office authorized $500 million in transfers from the U.S. Secret Service and the White House Military Office, planning documents show. Those private donations also come with transparency problems — the administration kept the ballroom's funding contract secret from the public until Public Citizen, a government watchdog organization, sued for the contract and a federal judge ordered it released, The Post reported.