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Bloomberg @ Silicon Valley · today 09:30 EDT

Most Trump ballroom donors have federal contracts, including Apple, Meta and Microsoft, watchdog Says

Sixteen of the 24 donors have received federal contracts with the cumulative sum totaling $279 billion over the past five years, according to the study by Public Citizen

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