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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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U.S. Military Stays at Trump Turnberry

Actions
documentedPartial DOD records showed taxpayer-funded military lodging at Trump Turnberry across more than three dozen stays after inauguration.AxiosU.S. House Committee on Oversight and ReformRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedThe House memorandum said DOD's production was incomplete, limiting a full accounting and explanation of the lodging decisions.U.S. House Committee on Oversight and ReformRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Turnberry
  • Trump Turnberry
Who paid or was affected
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

Federal travel spending reached a Trump-owned resort. The cited evidence does not establish that Trump directed the stays, or that the reported gross lodging spend became personal net profit.

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