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Donald Trump repeatedly said and reported that he donated his presidential salary during his first term, with multiple outlets and federal agencies confirming donations to specific agencies and projec...
The U.S. president’s statutory annual salary is $400,000, plus a $50,000 expense allowance, $100,000 travel account and $19,000 entertainment fund (total statutory salary line items commonly cited) . ...
Banks and nonbank lenders do offer pathways for undocumented immigrants—most commonly via ITIN-based mortgages, community banks, credit unions and specialist nonbank lenders—but availability is uneven...
Federal probes into the Minnesota fraud cases have been led primarily by U.S. federal prosecutors working with multiple federal agencies — including the Treasury Department, the U.S. Small Business Ad...
Phil Godlewski is variously presented in public records and media as a real‑estate broker, an operator or promoter of precious‑metals and merchandise ventures, and a participant in networked sales act...
Federal disaster funds for California fires in early 2025 include a mix of FEMA individual assistance, Public Assistance grants, and large Small Business Administration (SBA) loan approvals; totals ci...
What began in early June 2025 as mass demonstrations against aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raids in Los Angeles quickly escalated into multi-day unrest, mixing large p...
Available reporting shows federal and state probes tied to a vast Minnesota pandemic-fraud scandal are active and have drawn public comments about possible links to terrorism and to political figures ...
EIDLs (Economic Injury Disaster Loans) are generally loans that must be repaid in full; emergency EIDL advances (grants) were not required to be repaid . COVID-era EIDLs were given very long terms—com...
Multiple federal agencies have opened or announced probes into Minnesota fraud cases tied largely to the “Feeding Our Future” and related COVID‑era relief schemes: the Department of Justice (Justice D...
Reporting to date shows for the White House Ballroom renovation; public articles list large prime firms such as Clark Construction, AECOM, and McCrery Architects as the project team. Available coverag...
The core of Donald Trump’s second-term cabinet in 2025 was a mix of familiar Trump loyalists, media personalities turned officials, and political allies elevated to high-profile roles — with Vice Pres...
Minnesota is at the center of a large COVID-era fraud probe after the Small Business Administration (SBA) suspended 6,900 borrowers tied to 7,900 PPP and EIDL loans worth about $400 million amid alleg...
President Trump issued an executive order declaring that “all executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed” on December 24 and December 26, 2025, excusing employees fro...
Federal agencies have announced multiple investigations tied to the large Minnesota COVID-era fraud rings, and media reporting shows scrutiny of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s connections to some convicted partici...
Small businesses repaying COVID-era EIDL loans have limited on-ramps: SBA extended deferrals (30 months for 2020–22 loans) and offered temporary programs such as a Hardship Accommodation Plan, but SBA...
Donald Trump publicly pledged to forgo his $400,000 annual presidential salary and repeatedly said he would donate it; contemporaneous reporting in March 2017 found no public accounting or documentati...
The 25th Amendment’s refers to the “principal officers of the ,” a phrase long understood to mean the heads of the executive departments enumerated in — the 15 positions codified at 5 U.S.C. §101 — wh...
President Donald J. Trump repeatedly announced that he donated his quarterly presidential paychecks to federal agencies and programs during his term, with public statements and press briefings listing...
Donald Trump did donate portions of his presidential salary during his first term to several federal agencies and causes, including a first-quarter $78,333 gift to the National Park Service and a seco...