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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Aratani and Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir

a rendering of a building
A rendition of the East Wing with the new White House ballroom in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/UPI/Shutterstock

The White House has revealed that major companies in the tech, defense and crypto industries are helping Donald Trump fund his $300m ballroom at the White House, where work is under way to demolish the entire East Wing.

The list of donors includes tech companies Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google; the defense contractors Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Palantir; and the communication companies T-Mobile and Comcast, according to CNN.

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