Jul 11, 2019 · President Donald Trump's July Fourth extravaganza — featuring tanks, a military flyover, and a Trump speech at the Lincoln Memorial — cost an estimated $5.4 million, according to rough figures ...
Jun 25, 2020 · President Trump’s expanded Fourth of July celebrations last year cost double that of previous years, siphoning some $13 million in taxpayer funds.
Aug 02, 2021 · While Trump staffers told The Washington Post that their boss had raised $82 million of that total during the first six months of 2021, the bulk of that amount was actually the result of transfers from other accounts which had been raising funds last year. Still, it must be recognized that Trump's record campaign haul is, in Politico's words ...
Event workers arrive at the Lincoln Memorial ahead of Thursday's July Fourth Salute to America celebration, on July 3, 2019 in Washington, D.C. President Trump will deliver a speech at the ...
Dec 04, 2020 · 2020 Presidential Election Fundraising: Biden Vs. Trump See the latest campaign finance figures for President Trump and his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Public funding for major party presidential nominees in the general election takes the form of a grant of $20 million plus the COLA.
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Donald Trump has been a presidential candidate three times, in 2000, 2016, and 2020; he also "unofficially" campaigned in 2012 and mulled a run in 2004.
On January 18, Trump revealed, in an interview with The Washington Post, that he had decided Keep America Great would be his 2020 reelection campaign slogan.
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"Hope" – 2008 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Barack Obama during the general election.
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The Treasury Department and IRS sent almost 1.1 million coronavirus stimulus payments, totaling almost $1.4 billion, to dead people as of April 30, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) paper released Thursday reported. Apparently not enough. see more.
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There are a few reasons why Donald Trump has done so well on the fundraising front — he's told his supporters that they should only be sending money to him, and not to the GOP as a whole.
No matter how big Donald Trump's war chest is, no one is still clear on what it is he plans to spend it on. As The Washington Post pointed out, he could use it to fund a 2024 run for the White House. He could use it to pay for unspecified travel and political activities meant to influence 2022's midterm elections.
President Trump donated at least $1.4 million of the $1.6 million he earned as president to various federal agencies.
In 2018, President Trump gave: Q1: $100,000 to the Veteran’s Administration for “caregiver support in the form of mental health and peer support programs, financial aid, education training, and research.”.
In 2020, President Trump gave: Q1: $100,000 to HHS to “develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.”. Q2: $100,000 to the NPS in July 2020 to help pay for repairs on national monuments. “I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President,” Trump tweeted.
Trump’s first-quarter 2017 salary donation to the National Park Service was for $78,333, likely his take-home pay after taxes. The Park Service said an anonymous donor gave $22,000 to round the donation up to $100,000.
In 2019, President Trump gave: Q1: $100 ,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be “used for outreach programs that benefit farmers [.]”. Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Surgeon General.
Presidents are not legally allowed to decline their salary, but can donate it to organizations of their choosing. Trump is the first president since John F. Kennedy to donate his salary. Both John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover donated their presidential salaries to charitable causes.
Save America also cannot be used to retire Mr. Trump's campaign debt. Going into November, he seemed to be running low on cash, with just $60 million in cash on hand and $160 million owed for TV ads alone.
The expenses Trump can't pay with Save America funds. Although the Trump campaign is still explicitly soliciting for "Election Defense Funds," money donated to his Save America PAC cannot be used to support Mr. Trump's own campaign or the cost of litigation arising from his campaign, Brendan Fischer, Federal Reform Program director at ...
What Trump cannot use the donations for is to resolve the legal and financial problems he faces when he leaves the White House which may stand in the way of future political ambitions. Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, is leading a criminal investigation into Trump’s business dealings.
“He will be not just a past president and candidate, but a candidate who won the second-highest vote total of any American candidate ever, second only to Joe Biden. So he has this enormous base of followers.
Leadership Pacs were designed to allow individuals to raise money in support of a favoured candidate and Trump cannot legally use the proceeds to directly fund a run for office himself , such as another bid for the presidency in four years.
Trump loses his protection from criminal prosecution when he leaves office. While he claims to have the power to pardon himself before he departs the White House, any such move would only apply to federal crimes, not charges brought by New York or any other state. The president is also facing huge debt repayments.
New York’s state attorney general, Letitia James, is heading a civil probe after the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, told Congress Trump inflated the value of his assets to secure bank loans and then reduced them to cut tax.
Speculation is already swirling around the possibility of Ivanka Trump running for the US Senate in Florida. All of which maintains president’s political profile and influence in the Republican party, particularly as he has proved adept at turning other people’s campaign events into de facto Trump rallies.
The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers.
In the fall of 2020, we published a preelection update to our quarterly “Trump’s Numbers” series, and on President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we examined several statistical indicators on what he inherited. But as we noted then, the books weren’t yet closed on the Trump presidency.
As a candidate, Trump proclaimed: “I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. economy began slowing down. The real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product went up in Trump’s first two years, peaking at an estimated 2.9% in 2018 — the highest since 2005. But the economy grew only 2.3% in 2019 and the bottom fell out in 2020.
Household Income — Household income rose briskly under Trump before declining last year due to the pandemic.
Murders and aggravated assaults shot up dramatically under Trump, while most other types of crime declined.
Sales and production of guns slowed during Trump’s presidency — until COVID-19 concerns and protests against policing triggered huge spikes last year.