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In Donald Trump's press conference today Sherri Dillon of Morgan Lewis, a lawyer who has been working on the plan for the Trump business empire, said
in order to ensure that “it is the American people who will profit” going forward, Mr. Trump has directed that all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotels will be donated to the U.S. Treasury.”
Is this possible? Has there been any precedence of any citizen (public or private) donating to a government agency in the past?
It is not unprecedented. $2.7m was donated last year (2016). There is even a web site specifically for donations: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
Although this already has an accepted answer, I'm posting this as additional information.
Yes it is possible, please follow this link to make a gift payment to the US government to reduce the public debt.
