Security-focused U.S. government actions involve warnings that pausing construction risks vulnerabilities, executing unprecedented deportations of criminal illegal aliens to third countries, planning migrant camps at Guantánamo Bay, while law enforcement pursues violent crime cases and a major tech platform migration proceeds.

Active legal cases number 758 with only 19 plaintiff victories; major project budgets—from a $200 million building that doubled its ballroom cost to a Senate-estimated $40 million-plus expense—are escalating; Cloudflare’s automated error monitoring operates alongside planned 24-hour site outages; and UN and rights groups warn of rolling blackouts, food and medical shortages, and inhumane conditions at Guantánamo.

Federal and state courts have temporarily allowed Trump’s White House ballroom construction to proceed while ordering preservation of the President’s House slavery exhibit, clarified non-exclusive easement access rights in Virginia, and overseen the legality of third-country deportation agreements and removals.

International players and civil society groups are reacting with alarm and disapproval to a range of actions—from Beijing’s concern over Iranian strikes and public fear of Guantánamo to outrage at historical “sanitization” efforts and contempt for controversial judicial figures and rulings.