Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) are placing stress on huge tech corporations to elucidate their motives for donating to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. In letters to Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Uber, the lawmakers specific issues in regards to the corporations making contributions to “keep away from scrutiny, restrict regulation, and purchase favor.”
Over the previous a number of weeks, Google, Microsoft, Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner, Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman all donated $1 million apiece to Trump’s inauguration, whereas Uber and its CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, every contributed $1 million. Many of those tech execs have already met with Trump, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is even internet hosting an inauguration social gathering for the incoming president, in line with The New York Occasions.
