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Trump donates 2019 salary to USDA, surgeon general

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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., Aug. 15, 2019.(AP)
Sophie Austin
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Sophie Austin
Staff writer
August 19, 2019
Ruling: Promise Kept

President Donald Trump continues to maintain his campaign promise to donate his $400,000 annual White House salary with U.S. government agencies.

In August, a White House spokesman announced that Trump donated $100,000, his second-quarter salary, to the U.S. Surgeon General’s office.

“I donate 100% of my President’s salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!” Trump tweeted Aug. 16.

His first-quarter salary in 2019 went to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Trump donated his third quarter salary for 2018 to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trump’s older brother Fred Jr. died after struggling from alcoholism in 1981.

The president donated his 2018 fourth quarter salary to the Department of Homeland Security and has donated to various federal entities during his time in office, including the National Park Service, the Department of Education and the Veterans Administration.

This pledge remains Promise Kept.

Katie Sanders contributed to this report.

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