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Missing $50 million tracks straight to Mar-a-Lago
What happened
AlterNet does not establish that $50 million went to Mar-a-Lago. It reports that federal events connected to the United States’ 250th anniversary cost $128 million, with at least $114 million supplied by taxpayers, while The Wall Street Journal reported that corporate donors contributed at least another $50 million. The article does not provide records showing where those private contributions went.
According to AlterNet, Congress had funded an anniversary celebration a decade earlier, but Donald Trump created a separate, privately organized “Freedom 250” effort. The outlet says…
The skinny
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