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Introduced November 18, 2025 by Robert Garcia · Last progress November 18, 2025
The bill increases transparency and reduces foreign and pay-to-play influence at high-profile federal properties and events through bans and enforcement tools, but does so at the cost of higher compliance burdens, potential chilling of legitimate philanthropy, and risks of overbroad application or harsh penalties.
Taxpayers and the public: the bill bars donations from foreign governments to White House and similar federal properties/events unless Congress approves, reducing foreign influence risk.
Taxpayers, nonprofits, and donors: the bill requires donor disclosures and quarterly public reports, making donations and meetings more transparent.
Taxpayers and federal employees: the bill bans donations from litigants, contractors, grantees, lobbyists, pardon-seekers, and appointee-seekers, lowering pay-to-play risks and appearance-of-impropriety at federal properties and events.
Federal agencies, taxpayers, and staff: the new compliance, reporting, and review requirements will raise administrative costs and could slow acceptance and processing of beneficial donations.
Nonprofits and donors: restrictions (including a 2‑year lobbying ban after donating) and tighter rules may deter legitimate philanthropy and reduce private funding to public spaces and programs.
Nonprofits, donors, and agencies: broad prohibitions (e.g., ties to litigation, investigations, contracts, grants, or prior lobbying) may be administratively difficult to apply and could block donations from otherwise appropriate sources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds vetting, approval, and transparency requirements and source restrictions for donations used on presidentially‑linked public property and related events.
Restricts which donations may be accepted or used for maintenance, construction, alteration, demolition, acquisition, or events on or adjacent to public property dedicated to the sitting President or Vice President, including White House grounds, Number One Observatory Circle, and monuments or structures that name or honor a living current or former President, Vice President, or Presidential appointee. Requires donations to follow existing gift authority and adds a new approval, transparency, and source‑restriction process involving the National Park Service and the Office of Government Ethics. Requires the Senate‑confirmed Director of the National Park Service to make a written determination (with concurrence of the Senate‑confirmed Director of the Office of Government Ethics) that a donation complies with the law before accepting or using it, and to publish that determination and notify two congressional oversight committees. Prohibits accepting donations whose ultimate source falls into specified disallowed categories (as defined in the bill) and relies on statutory definitions for foreign government, lobbying activities, and nonprofit organizations.