The disclosure described it only as a nonrefundable development fee tied to a letter of intent. The Trump Organization says it relates to an unannounced golf course project.
Base Group has courted the Trump family for nearly a decade.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|California District 49
Mike Levin
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Voting Record — 592
Yes46%
No53%
Present1%
Not Voting1%
Party align97%
Cross-party3%
Mike Levin
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratCalifornia District 49
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Mike's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 25 sponsored · 100 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
The payment came from Base Group, the lead investor in Korea Aluminium, which faced penalties after the Commerce Department found that South Korean companies were circumventing trade duties on Chinese-made aluminum.
The money surfaced in Trump’s annual financial disclosure released in late June.
This would be a huge scandal for any other president.
A South Korean company challenging Commerce Department trade penalties paid Donald Trump’s holding company $2,000,000 last year.
This is an increasingly desperate president, with a war ongoing and costs rising, laying the foundation to attack the 2026 elections and our voting rights.
We must be vigilant, and our answer must be an overwhelming victory at the polls.
No court, no audit, and none of the documents he declassified show a single flipped vote.
He has spent years attacking American elections with claims that repeatedly collapse under scrutiny. Now he has declassified documents that undermine his own story, and he is asking Americans to ignore them.
Russia is the only country identified as carrying out confirmed election influence operations.
So Trump stood before the American people, blamed the country his own intelligence found did not interfere, and ignored the country his own intelligence found was working to help him win.
The same intelligence assessment found something very different about Russia. Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations intended to damage Joe Biden and help Donald Trump.
The government’s own summary chart tells the same story.
Reflecting on Trump’s rant last night, one thing I didn’t expect is the actual documents his own administration declassified would refute his key claims.
The National Intelligence Council found that China did not conduct covert election interference in 2020.
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The government just spent $1.5 billion of your money buying two immigration prisons from CoreCivic, including Otay Mesa in San Diego. The company walks away with over $1B.
Trump owns CoreCivic stock. He holds shares in the company his own administration just enriched.
Totally corrupt.
No matter what the president claims tonight, remember that the Constitution governs this country, not one man.
Presidents come and go.
Our founding principles are what must endure.
We must not allow this administration to normalize corruption. Trump’s favorite move is flooding the zone so Americans never get a chance to pay close attention.
That is why we must keep calling out their grift, and why I will never stop doing exactly that.
The government just spent $1.5 billion of your money buying two immigration prisons from CoreCivic, including Otay Mesa in San Diego. The company walks away with over $1B.
Trump owns CoreCivic stock. He holds shares in the company his own administration just enriched.
Totally corrupt.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...
Trump’s DOJ leadership shut the investigation down before they could act.
When the federal government refuses to enforce the law, the states have to do it themselves. 12 of them just did.
That would put two of America’s largest newsrooms under one family loyal to the President.
The Wall Street Journal reported that career antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department spent months investigating this deal and were leaning toward suing to stop it.
That means higher prices, fewer shows, and fewer jobs in an industry that has already lost too many.
It would also hand CNN to David Ellison, son of Trump ally Larry Ellison.
He already controls CBS News.
12 states just sued to block the $110 billion Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. California is leading the charge.
One combined company would control nearly a third of all films in theaters and nearly a third of basic cable programming.
When you stop actively looking for a parasite, you do not make it disappear.
In sum, cutting back one of the country’s most important foodborne disease surveillance systems was really, really stupid.
apnews.com/article/cdc-...
The reason the CDC gave was funding. (See AP article below from last August).
Active surveillance gives health officials an early warning when outbreaks begin.
Last year, the CDC scaled back FoodNet, the country’s primary active surveillance network for foodborne illness, cutting the pathogens it routinely tracks from eight down to two.
Cyclospora was one of the six they dropped.
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Voting History592 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
592 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 61 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-12-15 | S. 284 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-12-12 | H.R. 3668 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-12 | H.R. 3668 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 2550 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H. Res. 432 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3898 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3898 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3638 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3628 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H. Res. 939 (119th) | Kill the motion | PRESENT | NO | — | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 432 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | S. 1071 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | S. 1071 (119th) | Motion to Commit | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 936 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 936 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H.R. 1676 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-09 | S. 356 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1049 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1069 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 1005 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 4305 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 2965 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H.R. 4423 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-01 | H.R. 5348 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 3109 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H. Res. 893 (119th) | Motion to Refer | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 6019 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 4058 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5107 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5214 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H. Res. 888 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-11-19 | S.J. Res. 80 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H.J. Res. 131 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H.J. Res. 130 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.