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Political spending at Trump properties surpasses $20M
Political spending at Trump properties surpasses $20M
By Karl Evers-Hillstrom
October 24, 2019
Federal political committees have spent more than $20 million at businesses owned by President Donald Trump since the 2008 cycle, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.
Roughly 99 percent of that money has come since the start of the 2016 cycle, when Trump announced his bid for president and began spending campaign money at his own properties. Over that time, Trump campaign-affiliated committees have funneled about $16.8 million to Trump-owned businesses, the bulk of the spending at his properties.
Republican political campaigns and PACs have spent just under $1.8 million at Trump-owned businesses in the 2020 cycle thus far. Most of that comes from the Trump campaign, but 48 different Republican members of Congress also spent donor dollars this cycle through their affiliated political committees.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/10/trump-properties-poli-spending-passes-20m/?fbclid=IwAR26q_qy0xCA00nMQ1X8-oUoTVzBC3KoZUznQgfm33MMrosGCvP6lwCO_6A
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