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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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Vice President Pence's Doonbeg Stay

Actions
documentedVice President Pence's delegation stayed at Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg during an official Ireland visit.U.S. House Committee on Oversight and ReformCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
reportedFOIA records documented Secret Service payments to the Trump property associated with the stay.Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Doonbeg
  • Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Doonbeg
Who paid or was affected
  • United States taxpayers
  • U.S. Secret Service
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

Official travel generated federal lodging revenue for a Trump property, while the available record preserves competing logistics and cost explanations and does not show that Trump ordered the stay.

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