Charles Kushner is an American real estate developer and disbarred former attorney. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985.
In the United States,Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal or state agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operations within their parent agency. Such offices are attached to many federal executive departments,independent federal agencies,as well as state and local governments. Each office includes an inspector general and employees charged with identifying,auditing,and investigating fraud,waste,abuse,embezzlement and mismanagement of any kind within the executive department.
Jared Corey Kushner is an American businessman,investor,and former government official. He is the son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump through his marriage to Ivanka Trump,and served as a senior advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2021. He was also Director of the Office of American Innovation.
Kushner Companies LLC is an American real estate developer in the New York City metropolitan area. The company's biggest presence is in the New Jersey residential market.
Jovita Carranza is an American businesswoman who served as the 26th Administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2020 to 2021,having previously served as the 44th Treasurer of the United States from 2017 to 2020. She was appointed to both roles by President Donald Trump. Before that she served as the Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration from December 2006 to January 2009. Appointed by President George W. Bush,Carranza was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Prior to her first appointment to the SBA,Carranza served as Vice President of Air Operations for United Parcel Service (UPS) at its facility in Louisville,Kentucky.
Joshua Kushner is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital,co-founder and vice-chairman of Oscar Health,and the youngest son of real estate developer Charles Kushner. He is the younger brother of Jared Kushner,son-in-law and former senior advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump. He is also a minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is an organization of the United States government under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,the 2010 U.S. health care reform legislation. CMS provides healthcare coverage to more than 100 million Americans through Medicare,Medicaid,the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Thomas Joseph Barrack Jr. is an American private equity real estate investor and the founder and executive chairman of Colony Capital,a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT). Barrack has for decades been a close friend of and fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump,representing him in television news appearances. He was senior advisor to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and served as the chairman of his Inaugural Committee.
Oscar Health,Inc. is an American health insurance company,founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner,Kevin Nazemi and Mario Schlosser,and is headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on the health insurance industry through telemedicine,healthcare focused technological interfaces,and transparent claims pricing systems which would make it easier for patients to navigate.
The Public Investment Fund is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of US$930 billion. It was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the Government of Saudi Arabia. The wealth fund is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler since 2015.
Ray Willets Washburne is an American businessman,political fundraiser,and government official. He co-founded the M Crowd Restaurant Group,which owns Mi Cocina and other restaurants. He served as President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from 2017 to 2019 and as a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board from 2019 to 2020.
The economic policy of the first Donald Trump administration was characterized by the individual and corporate tax cuts,attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"),trade protectionism,deregulation focused on the energy and financial sectors,and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government. DFC invests in development projects primarily in lower and middle-income countries. First authorized on 5 October 2018 by the BUILD Act,the independent agency was formed on 20 December 2019 by merging the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),as well as with several other smaller offices and funds.
Avrahm Berkowitz is an American attorney and political adviser who served as the Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations from 2019 to 2021. He was an advisor to Jared Kushner in the Trump administration,and worked on the Trump peace plan and the Abraham Accords.
The Coronavirus Aid,Relief,and Economic Security Act,also known as the CARES Act,is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27,2020,in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The spending primarily includes $300 billion in one-time cash payments to individual people who submit a tax return in America,$260 billion in increased unemployment benefits,the creation of the Paycheck Protection Program that provides forgivable loans to small businesses with an initial $350 billion in funding,$500 billion in loans for corporations,and $339.8 billion to state and local governments.
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a public–private partnership initiated by the United States government to facilitate and accelerate the development,manufacturing,and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines,therapeutics,and diagnostics. The first news report of Operation Warp Speed was on April 29,2020,and the program was officially announced on May 15,2020. It was headed by Moncef Slaoui from May 2020 to January 2021 and by David A. Kessler from January to February 2021. At the end of February 2021,Operation Warp Speed was transferred into the responsibilities of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
The Abraham Accords are bilateral agreements on Arab–Israeli normalization signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain on September 15,2020. Mediated by the United States,the announcement of August 13,2020,concerned Israel and the Emirates before the subsequent announcement of an agreement between Israel and Bahrain on September 11,2020. On September 15,2020,the signing of the agreements was hosted by US president Trump on the Truman Balcony of the White House amid elaborate staging intended to evoke the signings of historic formal peace treaties in prior administrations.
The Kosovo and Serbia economic normalization agreements,informally known as the Washington Agreement,are a pair of documents in which Kosovo and Serbia agreed to facilitate economic normalization among themselves. The documents were signed by the Prime Minister of Kosovo Avdullah Hoti and the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučićon September 4,2020,at the White House,in the presence of the President of the United States Donald Trump.
The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) is a collaborative effort by Group of Seven (G7) to fund infrastructure projects in developing nations based on the trust principles of the Blue Dot Network. It is intended to be the bloc's counter to China's Belt and Road Initiative and a key component of the "Biden Doctrine".
Thrive Capital Management,LLC,commonly Thrive Capital,is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. It focuses on software and internet investments. The firm was founded by Joshua Kushner who is also co-founder of Oscar Health and minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies.
