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Democrats demand answers on donors who pledged $333 million to Trump's ballroom
Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren called the private donations to President Trump’s White House ballroom project a form of influence peddling after The Washington Post revealed its major contributors.
Congressional Democrats are pressing for more information about the private donors funding President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, after The Washington Post revealed the project’s major contributors last week.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts described the donations as a form of influence peddling, the Post reported on Wednesday.
Internal documents obtained by the Post showed that private donors had committed $333 million to the project. Nvidia, Apple and the Adelson family each pledged $25 million, the largest disclosed gifts, while Microsoft gave $10 million and funds tied to legal settlements with Google added $22 million.
The documents listed 67 donations of more than $10,000 recorded through the end of September. At least $77 million came from donors who asked to remain anonymous. Because the money is raised through a nonprofit rather than the traditional political donation system, ethics experts have raised concerns, noting that many donors have business interests before the federal government.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle declined to comment on individual gifts, describing the donors as “a broad range of outstanding American companies and generous individuals” helping to improve “the People’s House” for future generations. He said the administration would pursue those responsible for what he called a cowardly leak.
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