Biden inauguration bankrolled by corporate donors like Amazon, Google, Boeing
Corporations regularly give to presidential inaugural committees
Major companies Google, Amazon and Boeing are among President-elect Joe Biden's Inauguration Committee donors.
The Biden Inaugural Committee released a list of all contributors who donated over $200 but did not specify how much each contributor donated. That information must be disclosed in an FEC report required within 90 days of the inauguration.
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Publicly traded corporations on the Biden Inaugural Committee's donor list include:
–Comcast
–United Airlines
–UPS
–Verizon
–Qualcomm
–Microsoft
–Anthem (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
–Cannae Holdings
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMCSA | COMCAST CORP. | 39.58 | +0.59 | +1.51% |
| UAL | UNITED AIRLINES HOLDINGS INC. | 50.90 | +2.16 | +4.43% |
| UPS | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC. | 142.53 | +0.28 | +0.20% |
| VZ | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. | 40.01 | +0.24 | +0.60% |
Corporate donations to inaugural committees are not unusual, and Microsoft was listed as giving $500,000 in equipment to Trump's inauguration committee in 2017, CNBC reported. Google was listed as giving $285,000.
The inaugural committee said it refused to take money from fossil fuel companies, their executives or PACs organized by them.
The Capitol is seen as security preparations continue leading up to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ((AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite))
Other organizations on the Biden Inaugural Committee's donor list include:
–Centene Management Company
–Enterprise Holdings PAC
–MedPoint Management
–United Food and Commercial Workers
–International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
–United Association of Plumbers & Fitters
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCOM | QUALCOMM INC. | 163.98 | -0.34 | -0.21% |
| MSFT | MICROSOFT CORP. | 411.40 | -0.44 | -0.11% |
| ANTM | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| CNNE | CANNAE HOLDINGS INC | 19.64 | +0.21 | +1.08% |
News that Google donated to the inaugural committee comes amid conservative furor after the tech company said it would suspend social media platform Parler's listing from its Play Store, citing a failure to moderate "egregious content" related to violence at the U.S. Capitol this week.
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In addition, Big Tech employees have landed top posts on the Biden-Harris transition team and Republicans are raising concerns that the additions to the team and the next administration are "evidence" that Silicon Valley "works hand in glove" with Democratic politicians.
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At least nine different Biden transition team members or advisers previously held positions at Facebook, Google or Twitter. And several transition team members worked in the Obama administration before joining one of the tech giants and then later reentering politics as part of the Biden team.
FOX Business' Brittany De Lea and Fox News' Peter Hasson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
