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America First Audit

He said it in public. These are the documents on what happened next. Browse all records.

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Trump sold “America First.” This record traces how public money, power, and risk moved toward family businesses, donors, favored firms, and foreign governments: and what workers, ranchers, retirees, patients, veterans, and small investors were left to absorb.

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Presidential Ethics-Pledge Order Rescinded

Actions
documentedTrump's initial-rescissions order revoked Executive Order 13989, which had required an ethics pledge from Biden appointees.The White HouseRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
reportedIncoming executive-branch appointees were no longer subject to the rescinded order's pledge terms.Open cited record
  • Executive-branch appointees
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedThe Republican platform pledged to end corruption and hold government actors accountable.Republican National CommitteeRead record · 1 source

Promise unresolved

The rescission stripped out the predecessor order's contractual ethics-pledge framework for appointees. Separate criminal and ethics statutes stayed in force.

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