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America First Audit

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

Why these cases

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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Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip

Actions
documentedEric Trump traveled to the Dominican Republic in connection with a Trump-branded resort project while receiving Secret Service protection.Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonU.S. Government Accountability OfficeRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedGAO included the Dominican Republic in its calculation of public protection costs for the three trips.U.S. Government Accountability OfficeRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Organization Dominican Republic licensing business
Who paid or was affected
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedAt Trump's January 2017 press conference, counsel for the Trump Organization said the arrangement would isolate him from the business, bar new foreign deals and donate foreign-government hotel profits to the Treasury.TimeU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformRead record · 2 sources

Promise unresolved

The government paid protection costs tied to private business travel. The cited record does not establish a new deal, a project profit, or protection funds reaching the Trump business.

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