America First Audit — Governing thesis

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   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.

   • The American Presidency Project: 2024 Republican Party PlatformChapter Five, sections 1 and 3, and Core Promise 10
   • The White House: Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Affordable Beef for the American ConsumerSupplementing Our Beef Supply, bullets 1-2
   • The White House: Fact Check: President Trump Will Always Protect Social Security, Medicare, and MedicaidOpening claim and first bullet
   • U.S. Government Publishing Office: Public Law 119-21Title VII, Subtitle B, Chapter 1, Medicaid
   • The American Presidency Project: 2024 Republican Party PlatformCore Promise 3; Chapter Five, section 1
   • The White House: Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade DeficitsSections 2-3 and Annex I
   • Roll Call Factbase: Donald Trump Campaign Rally in Detroit, MichiganTranscript search: 'working with Elon Musk' and 'cut trillions'
   • The White House: Establishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency”Sections 1-4
   • The White House: President Donald J. Trump Restores Common Sense to Federal ProcurementIncreasing competition and efficiency section
   • System for Award Management: OPM HR (Cloud Based Human Capital Management)Award number, award date, recipient, value and justification notice
   • New York State Law Reporting Bureau: Matter of People v Trump, 2019 NY Slip Op 29336Findings concerning the January 28, 2016 veterans fundraiser
   • Office of the New York Attorney General: AG James Secures Court Order Against Donald J. Trump, Trump Children, And Trump FoundationAdmissions and restrictions sections
   • Roll Call Factbase: Donald Trump speech at the Bitcoin Conference in NashvilleCrypto-capital and presidential-advisory-council remarks
   • Associated Press: Trump promotes new meme coin before taking office on pro-crypto agendaTrump's promotional post, official allocation and disclaimer
   • The American Presidency Project: 2024 Republican Party PlatformTwenty promises, items 7-9; chapters 2, 9, and 10
   • Associated Press: Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump's usePentagon acceptance statement, intended presidential use, legal concerns, and administration cost-saving response
   • U.S. Department of Defense: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine Hold a Press BriefingOperation Midnight Hammer ordered by the President; three facilities and fourteen GBU-57 weapons
   • The White House: Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021Named 14 commutations, unconditional pardon for all other convicted individuals, dismissal directive