The corporations bankrolling Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom have received more than $50 billion in new or expanded federal contracts in the six months since they wrote those checks. Of 27 known donors, 16 had federal enforcement actions suspended, dropped, or scaled back. And the White House still will not say how much each donor gave. That is not a healthy democracy. That is pay-to-play running out of the People’s House. It is why I helped launch the End Corruption Caucus. I take no corporate PAC money and I do not trade stocks, because public office should never be a personal cash machine.