By Joseph Zeballos-Roig
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 18:51:00
US President Donald Trump, left, and Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., in the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 (Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images).
A group of Democrats in Congress are demanding answers from five powerful tech firms that made sizable donations to President Donald Trump’s ballroom.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Dave Min led lawmakers on Thursday in sending letters to the chief executives of Nvidia, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon, demanding more details about their political donations. They argue the donations could pave the way for favorable treatment from the U.S. government — and violate the law.
“These interests create the potential for a quid-pro-quo exchange of a contribution to the ballroom for regulatory or other favors from the federal government,” Warren and Min said in the letter signed by nine other Democratic lawmakers. “If your donation was made with the intent to influence government decision-making, it could run afoul of federal bribery law.”
The letters inquire about the timeline of the donations, the extent of the firms’ business interests before the U.S. government, whether their contributions were discussed with Trump aides, and if they’ll receive any tax benefits as a result.
Spokespeople for Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Amazon did not immediately return requests for comment from Quartz. Microsoft declined to comment on the letter.
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