Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a gilded grand ballroom. The president says taxpayers won’t be footing the $300 million bill and that private donors, himself included, will pick up the tab.
Big Tech will be paying for a lot of it, if the list of donors released by the White House Thursday is anything to go by (though it does not say how much each contributed). Featured are some of the country’s biggest tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Google-owned YouTube has already agreed to pay more than $20 million to the project as part of a controversial settlement to end a lawsuit Trump filed in 2021 and the companies are big donors to Trump’s “nonprofits.”
Crypto is well represented, too, with donations from Ripple, Tether America, Coinbase, and both Winklevoss twins (Cameron and Tyler feature separately). Defense and telecom giants like Lockheed Martin, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Palantir also appear.
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<h2>Ahead of the 2027 general election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/atiku-abubakar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atiku Abubakar</a>, is reportedly planning to form a new party to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).</h2>
<p><strong>Naija News</strong> learnt that Atiku, in collaboration with some members of the National Assembly, has set in motion the machinery for the proposed party.</p>
<p>According to the Nation, Atiku’s camp is wary of the disunity in the leading opposition party, thinking that if it persists until 2027, the party may not be able to wrest power from the ruling party.</p>
<p>A southern senator who spoke with the publication above said the former Vice President has been liaising with ex-Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who contested the Senate Presidency and lost to Senator Godswill Akpabio.</p>
<p>The source said Atiku and his allies are mulling a repeat of the 2013 scenario, where some governors and federal legislators rebelled against the PDP and teamed up with other parties to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).</p>
<p>Recall the ruling APC was formed in February 2013, following the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and what was called the new-PDP.</p>
<p>The source said: <em>“They have gone far in the arrangement. They believe that the country is in the same situation as it was in 2014 during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s era, hence, their decision to form a mega party to wrest power from Tinubu.</em></p>
<p><em>“Ningi’s statement on the BBC Hausa Service was one of the moves of the promoters of the mega party. They want to create problems in the National Assembly and set the lawmakers against each other and the Presidency.”</em></p>
<p>The southern senator said the majority of his colleagues were aware of the plot to return power to the North and destabilise Tinubu’s government.</p>
<p>He added: <em>“We know their game plan. We are watching them. We have since returned to our political arsenal to thwart any move to create enmity between us and the Executive and destabilise the government.”</em></p>
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