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America First Audit

About this audit and its evidence

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.

Promises & outcomes

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Payday Lenders at Doral and the CFPB Rule Reversal

unresolved
Promised
Trump campaigned on reducing special-interest influence in Washington.Open cited record · 1 source
The record
The payday-lending industry held a conference at Trump National Doral while the CFPB was reconsidering its underwriting rule.Open cited record · 1 sourceThe CFPB finalized a rule revoking the mandatory underwriting provisions of the 2017 payday rule.Open cited record · 1 source
Audit finding
unresolved

The industry's patronage of a Trump property and the CFPB reversal are documented, but the causal link is not established and the rule had an administrative record independent of the conference venue.

How the action connects to the outcome

The events occurred in sequence, but timing alone does not establish that one caused the other.

People and impacts
Who gained
Who paid
  • Payday-loan borrowers
  • Payday-lending trade association and attendees