The majority of companies funding Donald Trump’s White House ballroom enjoyed lucrative government contracts even before signing up to the president’s pet project, according to a consumer rights watchdog.

The president claimed last week to have raised more than $350 million towards the 90,000-square-foot structure, which will tower over the ruins of the demolished East Wing.

The White House has even explored the idea of etching the names of major corporate donors onto the wall of the ballroom to record their generosity.

But according to the nonprofit Public Citizen, founded by the consumer activist Ralph Nader in 1971, those donations are chump change for Trump’s billionaire friends.

Its report says two-thirds of 24 known corporate donors collectively received $279 billion in federal

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