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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gestures as U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a meeting at the Oval Office of the White House, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, in Washington,

U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently invoked his success at resolving international conflicts, casting himself as a global peacemaker while his aides and some foreign leaders push for him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and President Donald Trump speak during a meeting Monday in the East Room of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington.