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Trump donating second-quarter salary to education
WSET-TV ^ | July 26, 2017 | The Associated Press

Posted on 07/26/2017 7:58:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is donating three months of his salary to the Department of Education.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump chose to give the department $100,000. His first quarter salary donation went to the Department of Interior.

(TWEET-AT-LINK)

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says the donation is being used to pay for a science, technology, engineering and mathematics camp sponsored by the department.....

(Excerpt) Read more at wset.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: devos; education; trump; youth

1 posted on 07/26/2017 7:58:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump will be the first President in history to be worth far less after serving 8 years than when he went in


2 posted on 07/26/2017 8:00:11 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are actually some news organizations and journalists that are actually reporting the news. This is si nice to see


3 posted on 07/26/2017 8:01:39 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

and after everything he’s been through!


4 posted on 07/26/2017 8:16:34 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (People are going to have to resist splitting into splinter groups if they want to get things done)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I were him, I’d donate it to one of the forgotten do-nothing useless federal agencies with the stipulation the money be used to close it down.


5 posted on 07/26/2017 8:19:15 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is there a reason he is not giving to private charities?


6 posted on 07/26/2017 9:18:05 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: joshua c

It’s his money.


7 posted on 07/26/2017 10:12:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank you President Trump!!


8 posted on 07/27/2017 2:27:49 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And a private charity might not want to take the heat for accepting the donation.


9 posted on 07/27/2017 3:06:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

Check out the last paragraph of the article. AP gets in a dig at what it calls Trump’s proposed 13% cut to federal education spending.


10 posted on 07/27/2017 3:08:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Dept. of Education wouldn’t need the donation if they didn’t have to pay storage rental on all those weapons and ammo the Terrorist in Chief gave them.


11 posted on 07/27/2017 6:11:43 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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