Offices gave various reasons for the pause, including “construction projects,” “extensive renovations” and “because of construction on the new White House ballroom.”

Tours of the White House are postponed “indefinitely” as construction is set to begin on President Donald Trump’s $200 million ballroom. The new event space, which the president has said he is funding himself, will be built on the site of the White House’s East Wing, between the Executive Residence and Treasury Department headquarters.