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Thu Feb 23, 2017, 09:36 PM Feb 2017

Transition donors linked to Cabinet

By Tal Kopan, CNN
Updated 2:52 PM ET, Thu February 23, 2017

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's transition efforts raised more than $6.5 million, according to government filings, with the vast majority of the donations coming after the election -- including thousands of dollars from people linked to his future Cabinet ...

... Linda McMahon, who is now confirmed as chief of the Small Business Administration ... gave the maximum donation on July 14, before Trump was even formally named the nominee ...

Wilbur Ross, expected to be confirmed as commerce secretary, maxed out on October 31. He was formally announced on November 30 ...

The DeVos family gave 10 individual $5,000 donations on December 14. Betsy DeVos, now the secretary of education, was announced as the nominee on November 23 ...


http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/trump-transition-fundraising-clinton/

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