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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 the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip

Actions
documentedDonald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump traveled to the United Arab Emirates for the opening of a Trump-branded golf club with Secret Service protection.Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonU.S. Government Accountability OfficeRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedGAO included the trip in its accounting of federal protection costs for three early-2017 international trips by Trump's adult children.U.S. Government Accountability OfficeRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Organization UAE 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

Public protection spending supported a private Trump Organization business trip. The record does not show that spending reaching the Trump business as revenue.

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