Tax documents from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and a major foundation funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros show that the organization that claims to represent American business has moved far to the left in recent years.
Tides Foundation public filings from 2018 to 2022 show the Soros-funded organization donated more than $12 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation over those five years. In 2018, the Tides Foundation donated $450,000 to the Chamber of Commerce Foundation. In 2019, Tides donated $1.45 million to chamber groups. In 2020 she donated another $100,000, in 2021 she donated $10 million, and in 2022 she donated another $175,885. That’s a total of $12,175,885 over five years.
View the Tides Foundation’s public materials here:
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The Tides Foundation is funded by various left-wing donors, including tens of millions of dollars donated by Soros’ various groups and family members.
“God knows what they promised in exchange for a donation of that magnitude to the Tides Foundation,” a former chamber of commerce consultant told Breitbart News. “But George Soros won’t write a check like this without getting a return on his investment.”
During this period, specifically from 2021 to 2022, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s revenue decreased significantly, according to the organization’s just-filed 2022 tax filings. Documents show that in 2021, the organization’s revenue was $53,612,150, while in 2022, the group’s IRS 990 form showed him $30,634,307. This equates to a reduction in revenue of $22,977,843, or approximately 42 percent, in just one year.
In 2022, Suzanne Clark, director and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, received $6,326,094 from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, according to tax filings. dollars, or just under $125,000 per year. week.
“Is Susie Clark really worth $100,000 a week to represent the business community?” a former Chamber of Commerce official told Breitbart News.
According to 2022 tax returns from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the largest vendor that year was an organization called Markham Group LLC, an event planning company based in Little Rock, Arkansas. According to IRS documents, Markham Group was paid $5,193,837 by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation in 2022, far more than any other vendor.
View the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s tax returns here.
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Other than the fact that the Markham Group has very strong ties to top Democrats and less so among Republicans, the fact that business groups are paying so much money to event planning companies seems unremarkable. Dew. On the company’s website, photos and videos Democratic President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, California Governor Gavin Newsom, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Democratic Party leaders including former Biden. assisted in the execution of the event. Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Clinton Global Initiative, etc.
The founding partner of Markham Group is a man named. Greg HaleHe has worked in and around the Clinton family’s political orbit for decades. In 2016, he served as production director for the Hillary Clinton campaign, for which he won an award. shining profile inside new york times The article was published weeks before former President Donald Trump smoked her out during that year’s election.
It’s also no secret that the Chamber of Commerce’s foundation employs Markham Group. in 2018 interview with Arkansas Democrat GazetteHale talked about his work with the Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which produces events, while rattling off other major clients on the radical left with whom he works.
“Most of our work is about passionate things that we believe in,” Hale said in an interview with a local newspaper.
We have been working on March for Our Lives rallies across the country for several weeks now. Bloomberg and Everytown are good clients that do really good things. The Walton Family Foundation does good work helping people. We work with Hiring Our Heroes, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which hosts gatherings across the country that bring veterans and match them with potential employers. It’s a rewarding job.
hire our heroes program This is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s annual effort to connect U.S. military, military spouses, and veterans with potential employers. The impressive annual push helps veterans and military families find economic opportunities, but that’s not the point. Literally anyone can do this job at the Chamber Foundation – there are probably hundreds of major event production companies that are not operating in the United States. By partisan left-wing Democrats like Hale. However, the source of funding changed and while the Chamber of Commerce Foundation began receiving millions of dollars from left-wing groups, the organization chose this company to carry out its activities.
Additionally, given the fact that Biden, in his recent State of the Union address, used the fact that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its affiliated foundations supported the senator’s failed Senate immigration deal, How it is managed is particularly important. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and others cited it as some kind of evidence of Republican support.
“The Border Patrol union supported this bill. The Federal Chamber of Commerce said,” Biden said. Said He said this in his State of the Union address before getting into a shouting match with Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Trump would tear up the Senate’s immigration deal, telling Breitbart News in a recent exclusive interview at Mar-a-Lago that it would “exacerbate” the border crisis created by Biden.
But again, the fact that Mr. Biden is relying on the Chamber of Commerce as a key part of his second term claim in his State of the Union address raises serious questions about whether the Chamber is not relying entirely on Democrats. It’s raising questions. And tax documents show that the affiliated foundation certainly did.
