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SENATE RESOLUTION 807—DIRECTING THE SENATE LEGAL COUNSEL TO BRING A
EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE CONTAINED IN CLAUSE 8 OF SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE I OF
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Ms. Alsobrooks, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Coons, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kim, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Whitehouse) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration:
S. Res. 807
Whereas the Foreign Emoluments Clause contained in clause 8
of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United
States (referred to in this preamble as the “Foreign
Emoluments Clause”) states that no present, emolument,
office, or title, of any kind, may be accepted by the
President of the United States from a king, prince, or
foreign state without the consent of Congress;
Whereas the Founders included the Foreign Emoluments Clause
in the Constitution—by unanimous agreement of the State
delegations—to ensure the President would remain loyal to
the Nation and the public interest;
Whereas the Foreign Emoluments Clause has long been
understood to be “ `directed against every kind of influence
by foreign governments upon officers of the United States,'
in the absence of consent by Congress”;
Whereas—
(1) President Donald J. Trump has accepted a plane from the
government of Qatar for United States Government use as Air
Force One during the Trump Administration;
(2) the plane required the expenditure of Federal funds to
be refurbished, with a cost estimated to be between
$400,000,000 and $1,000,000,000; and
(3) the plane will be transferred nominally to the Donald
J. Trump Presidential Library shortly before the expiration
of his term of office;
Whereas President Donald J. Trump, his family members, and
his advisors participated in corrupt dealings with the
foreign government of the United Arab Emirates, its leaders,
including Abu Dhabi royal and United Arab Emirates National
Security Advisor, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan
(referred to in this preamble as “Tahnoon”), and multiple
entities, including—
(1) in January 2025, lieutenants to Tahnoon secretly signed
a deal with Eric Trump, the President's son, to purchase a 49
percent stake in the Trump family cryptocurrency venture,
World Liberty Financial, for $500,000,000, with $187,000,000
of that initial investment paid to Trump family entities DT
Marks DEFI LLC and DT Marks SC LLC from the Tahnoon-backed
Aryam Investment I;
(2) on May 1, 2025, MGX Fund Management Limited, a Tahnoon-
backed investment firm, also announced an agreement to use a
stablecoin from World Liberty Financial to complete a
$2,000,000,000 deal with Binance Holdings Ltd.; and
(3) in a quid pro quo exchange for this investment and
deal, the Trump Administration granted the United Arab
Emirates access to 500,000 of the most advanced artificial
intelligence chips in the United States annually, with 20
percent allocated for G42, an artificial intelligence company
Tahnoon leads, despite longstanding United States national
security concerns regarding the company;
Whereas Justin Sun, a Chinese billionaire with ties to the
Chinese Communist Party, who is fighting a lawsuit brought by
United States regulators for fraud and unregistered
securities, invested $30,000,000 in World Liberty Financial
and joined the platform as an advisor;
Whereas, in March 2025, Vietnamese authorities expedited a
Trump Organization development project for a $1,500,000,000
golf complex, bypassing numerous legal obligations related to
securing land and conducting environmental reviews, and whose
groundbreaking the Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
attended, while the United States and Vietnam were in the
midst of trade negotiations;
Whereas, in April 2025, the Trump Organization announced an
upcoming development project for a luxury golf resort in
Qatar to be developed by Qatari Diar, a company established
by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and chaired by a Qatari
government minister, and Dar Global, the international
subsidiary of a private Saudi real estate firm with close
ties to the government of Saudi Arabia;
Whereas, in October 2025—
(1) the President was overheard on recorded audio in
conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
discussing a call between Subianto and Eric Trump, who is
President Trump's son and the Executive Vice President of the
Trump Organization; and
(2) the Trump Organization has 2 real estate projects under
development in Indonesia;
Whereas, in November 2025, the Serbian President Aleksandar
Vucic and his party in the Serbian parliament passed a law to
allow for the development of a previously protected building
site for a future luxury hotel and apartment complex backed
by Affinity Partners, the firm of President Trump's son-in-
law Jared Kushner;
Whereas, since the election of President Trump, the Trump
Organization has announced additional developments and
licensing projects in India, the Maldives, Oman, the
Philippines, Romania, and the United Arab Emirates, netting
the President and his family millions in license-fee income;
Whereas President Trump accepted a gold-plated desk clock
styled like a Rolex and an engraved gold bar at a gathering
of Swiss business executives prior to slashing Switzerland's
tariff rate from 39 percent to 15 percent;
Whereas—
(1) President Trump launched a cryptocurrency memecoin,
$TRUMP, shortly before taking office;
(2) President Trump encouraged the digital coin's purchase
by awarding top buyers a gala dinner, a private VIP reception
with the President, a tour of the White House, and a Trump-
branded timepiece;
(3) top buyers who participated in the events outlined in
paragraph (2) included—
(A) Justin Sun, a Chinese billionaire with ties to the
Chinese Communist Party who is fighting a lawsuit brought by
United States regulators;
(B) Cheng Lu, a cryptocurrency investor from Shanghai;
(C) He Tianying, a member of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference;
(D) Sheldon Xia, the founder of a cryptocurrency trading
platform backed by a China-based investment firm;
(E) Sangrok Oh, chief executive of a Seoul-and Tokyo-
based firm;
(F) Andrei Grozovski, a board member for an Estonian
company; and
(G) others who have yet to be identified; and
(4) President Trump netted $635,000,000 thus far from the
memecoin;
Whereas the President of the United States has a
constitutional and statutory obligation to uphold the public
trust; and
Whereas the violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause and
corruption writ large undermines public trust and the
integrity of public office in the United States: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate Legal Counsel shall bring a civil
action in the name of the Senate to enforce the Foreign
Emoluments Clause contained in clause 8 of section 9 of
article I of the Constitution of the United States with
respect to the emoluments described in the fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, twelfth, and thirteenth whereas clauses of
the preamble of this resolution by enjoining President Donald
J. Trump from accepting any present, emolument, office, or
title of any kind whatever from a foreign state without
obtaining the consent of Congress.