The president-elect is yet to sign an agreement with the Biden administration that imposes strict limits on fundraising for his transition to the White House.
President-elect Donald Trump is keeping secret the names of donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see which interest groups, businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term.
“When the money isn’t disclosed, it’s not clear how much everybody is giving, who is giving it and what they are getting in return for their donations,” said Heath Brown, a professor of public policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who studies presidential transitions. “It’s an area where the vast majority of Americans would agree that they want to know who is paying that bill.
Linda McMahon, a co-head of Trump’s transition team, has said it intends to sign the agreements with the Biden administration, even though it has repeatedly missed deadlines to do so.Trump’s transition team, formally known as Trump Vance 2025 Transition Inc, has revealed nothing about how much money it hopes to raise, who has contributed to the fund or how it is spending the money.
That transition was eventually wound down and, as required by its settlement with New Jersey, donated the last of its funds to a charity, according to Kory Langhofer, a lawyer for the 2016 transition. The transition chose the Wounded Warrior Project, a non-profit that helps veterans. That charity said it had received $US17,478.
Transition funding is not regulated by the FEC. And IRS rules permit the non-profits in question to accept donations from foreigners without public disclosure.Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, which studies transition operations, said disclosure rules were intended to keep donors from using the transition fund to seek favourable treatment privately from the incoming administration before it even begins.
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