Construction began yesterday on U.S. President Donald Trump's White House ballroom. Who's paying for it? The only confirmed donor is YouTube, but other names in the mix include Blackstone, OpenAI, Microsoft, Palantir, Lockheed Martin and Amazon. @BBCNews talked to Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer in the Bush White House, about why he's concerned about this.
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