Trump ballroom donors awarded $50B in taxpayer-funded contracts in last six months: watchdog

More than half of the 27 publicly-identified donors to President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom have been awarded new or expanded federal contracts since construction work began, according to a watchdog's report.

Fourteen of the donors to Trump's pet project saw their government business grow in the first six months after he ordered the demolition of the East Wing, with the contract awards worth a combined $50 billion, new analysis from Public Citizen reveals.

Per the non-profit, the largest individual recipient of new business over the course of the time period concerned was the defense giant Lockheed Martin, which has received approximately $43.8 billion in new or enhanced government business since the autumn.

Other contributors to the ballroom who have also reportedly received new or improved deals for their services during the timeframe include Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar and T-Mobile.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-ballroom-donors-awarded-50b-155319199.html

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