White House North Portico Undergoes Security Upgrades Including New Fencing

Summary

Workers are currently making security enhancements to the North Portico of the White House, with the Trump administration also planning to erect new fences at points where Pennsylvania Avenue intersects nearby streets. The Secret Service and White House would be able to close those new fences on demand, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly. The North Portico work is part of a broader pattern of physical changes being made to the White House complex since Trump returned to office. Security upgrades to presidential facilities are routine across administrations, though the scale and visibility of these particular changes have drawn attention. No timeline for completion has been publicly announced, and the full scope of the North Portico work has not been detailed by officials on the record.