• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimers
  • DMCA
  • Contact Us
  • Submit your story

Business Breaking News

Update latest business news


You are here: Home / Rich Lowry / Wife of GOP megadonor to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Wife of GOP megadonor to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

November 10, 2018 politico Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — to the wife of one of the Republican Party’s most prominent patrons, the White House announced Saturday. Miriam Adelson will receive the medal along with six other “distinguished individuals” at a ceremony on Friday, the White House said. She is married to billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, who joined Trump for a watch party at the White House residence on Tuesday evening to monitor the incoming returns from the 2018 midterm elections. Story Continued Below The Adelsons in recent months have emerged as the Republican Party’s biggest financial backers, contributing more than $113 million to GOP causes during the 2018 election cycle. Among those donations, the couple gave $25 million in July to the Senate Leadership Fund, $2 million in September to ESAFund, $3 million in July and September to the Republican Governors Association, and roughly $40 million between May and September to the Congressional Leadership Fund. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is bestowed upon those who have made “especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” according to the White House. In its brief biography of Miriam Adelson, the White House described her as “a committed doctor, philanthropist, and humanitarian,” as well as “a committed member of the American Jewish community.” The other 2018 honorees include Sen…. [Read full story]




  • Trump's national emergency sparks new GOP divide in Congress
  • Trump says 7 to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • GOP megadonors clash in 2018's costliest Senate primary
  • GOP megadonor: ‘I’m not writing one penny to any of them’ until DACA is resolved
  • 'Black Girl Magic' theme of 20th annual Ford Freedom Awards
  • Isabel Allende to receive honorary National Book Award medal
  • Wisconsin Sen. Baldwin advances, awaits GOP challenger
  • GOP leaders, Freedom Caucus face off on farm bill, immigration
  • Arts and science medal ceremonies absent under Trump
  • Hillary Clinton to be honored with medal from Harvard

Rich Lowry presidential medals of freedom, presidential medal of freedom 2016, presidential medal of freedom benefits, presidential medal of honor, presidential medal, Presidential Medals, medal freedom, presidential freedom medal, GOP Presidential Debate, US Medal of Freedom, Presidental Medal of Freedom, medals of freedom, presidential quotes about freedom, obama gives medal of freedom

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Primary Sidebar

Categories

and article Billboard Briefing Business Business Insider Business news Crime crime news Entertainment Expat healthcare finance houston texas Ideas Indonesia Instagram International Investigative Reporting Jobs News Latest Stories Leadership Life Lifestyle Markets Mr. Roadshow Music & Stage News news_business news_news news_sport Overseas Pac 12 Hotline Politics Rich Lowry Sports Stage & Arts Star Business Journal Technology Telegraph THE INC. LIFE Uncategorized Vietnam World News www.businessinsider.com.au [News] /Root/News/arkansas

Recent Posts

  • WB Vice President for Infrastructure to Visit Vietnam
  • Daytona 500 was action-packed opener NASCAR needed
  • Imports of aquatic products exceed US$1.7b in 2018
  • Pagtigil sa ‘endo’ huwag gamiting pambola sa halalan: grupo
  • More firms cited for pollution in Manila Bay cleanup
  • Domestic medical service increasingly attracts overseas Vietnamese
  • Bank profits: private firms surpass state-owned giants
  • Morgan Stanley says rate hikes in emerging markets will be pretty rare this year
  • New Zealand leader says no final decision on using Huawei
  • N.Korean envoy en route to Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim summit: Yonhap

Copyright © 2019 Business Breaking News. Power by Wordpress.