West Wing Staffers Move Out For Renovations

Storage containers outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, Aug. 4, 2017, as workers prepare to complete maintenance and updates to the West Wing. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

White House staffers in the West Wing moved to new quarters on Monday to make way for an upgrade of the West Wing’s heating and air conditioning.

President Donald Trump took off for his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday as the long-anticipated construction began.

The heating, ventilation, and air conditioning needed to be replaced, leaving the West Wing temporarily without air conditioning.

The West Wing lower lobby and the Navy Mess kitchen, a small dining facility run by the Navy in the West Wing basement—which is available only to senior White House officials, Cabinet secretaries, and their guests—are also being renovated, CBS reported.

The White House Mess, a dining facility located next to the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC. (Whitehouse.gov)