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Official title: To prevent corruption by appropriately limiting donations for any public property, building, or fixture at the White House, the Naval Observatory, or certain other public property, for events on such property, or for monuments to living current or former Presidents, current or former Vice Presidents, or current or former employees or officers appointed by the President.
Introduced November 18, 2025 by Robert Garcia · Last progress November 18, 2025
The bill tightens donation rules, transparency, and enforcement to reduce corruption and foreign influence at high‑profile federal properties and events, but it raises compliance costs, administrative complexity, and risks deterring legitimate philanthropy.
Taxpayers and federal employees: the bill bans donations from litigants, contractors, grantees, lobbyists, pardon‑seekers, and appointee‑seekers, reducing pay‑to‑play risk and the appearance of impropriety at federal properties and events.
Taxpayers: the bill prevents foreign governments from donating to White House and similar federal events/properties unless Congress approves, limiting foreign influence and related national security risks.
Taxpayers and nonprofits: the bill requires donor disclosures and quarterly public reports listing donors and meeting disclosures, increasing transparency about who funds federally‑associated events and properties.
Taxpayers and federal agencies: new compliance and reporting requirements will increase administrative costs for agencies (e.g., NPS, OGE) and could slow or complicate acceptance of beneficial donations.
Nonprofits and donors: new restrictions plus a 2‑year lobbying ban after donating may deter legitimate philanthropic support for federal properties and programs.
Nonprofits and agency staff: broad prohibitions tied to litigation, contracts, grants, investigations, or prior lobbying may be administratively hard to apply and could block donations from otherwise appropriate sources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires ethics determinations, OGE concurrence, congressional notice, and publication before accepting donations for projects/events tied to President/VP properties and bars donations from disqualified sources.
Prohibits accepting or using donations for maintenance, construction, improvements, or events on or adjacent to property dedicated for use by the sitting President or Vice President, or for monuments honoring living current or former Presidents, Vice Presidents, or Presidential appointees, unless the donation complies with existing gift-acceptance law and new ethics review steps. Requires a written determination by the National Park Service director (with concurrence of the Office of Government Ethics director), publication in the Federal Register, and submission to two congressional committees before a donation may be accepted or used; it also bars donations whose ultimate source falls into disqualifying categories defined in statute or referenced law.