IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 410 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that President Trump 
must comply with the Foreign Emoluments Clause, by submitting all 
plans for his jumbo jet gift from Qatar immediately to Congress. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 14, 2025 
Mr. RASKIN (for himself, Mr. NADLER, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. 
JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. LIEU, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. 
CORREA, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. NEGUSE, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. ROSS, Ms. 
BALINT, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, 
Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, and Ms. CROCKETT) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
President Trump must comply with the Foreign Emolu-
ments Clause, by submitting all plans for his jumbo 
jet gift from Qatar immediately to Congress. 
Whereas article I, section 9, clause 8 of the United States 
Constitution (known as the ‘‘Foreign Emoluments 
Clause’’) provides that ‘‘[N]o Person holding any Office 
of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, with-
out the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, 
Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from 
any King, Prince, or foreign State’’; 
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Whereas the framers of the Constitution were determined to 
presumptively ban the collection of emoluments from for-
eign governments ‘‘of any kind whatever’’ by our political 
leaders to guarantee their undivided fiduciary loyalty to 
the American people and to prevent them from being cor-
rupted in their official decisionmaking by the wealth and 
plunder of foreign states and monarchs; 
Whereas the Constitution’s sole exception to this presumptive 
ban on accepting emoluments from foreign governments 
is in cases where Congress considers and affirmatively 
consents to the acceptance of such a gift; 
Whereas George Washington, in his 1796 farewell address to 
the Nation, warned that ‘‘Against the insidious wiles of 
foreign influence...the jealousy of a free people ought to 
be constantly awake, since history and experience prove 
that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of 
republican government.’’; 
Whereas, in 1830, President Andrew Jackson wrote a letter 
to Congress petitioning for the privilege of keeping a gold 
medal presented to him by then-Colombian President 
Simon Bolivar, but was forced to deposit the medal with 
the Department of State after Congress rejected his re-
quest; 
Whereas, in 1840, President Martin Van Buren, who was of-
fered 2 horses, a case of rose oil, 5 bottles of rose water, 
a package of cashmere shawls, a Persian rug, a box of 
pearls, and a sword by the Imam of Muscat, sought Con-
gressional guidance and carefully abided by the directive 
of Congress to deposit the gifts with the Department of 
State and the Department of the Treasury; 
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Whereas, in 1844, President John Tyler obeyed the directive 
of Congress to sell 2 horses presented to the United 
States by the Imam of Muscat and deposit the proceeds 
with the Department of the Treasury; 
Whereas, in 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, President 
Abraham Lincoln presented to Congress 2 decorative ele-
phant tusks, a sword, and a photograph from the King 
of Siam, requesting permission to accept these exotic 
gifts, but deposited them with the Department of the In-
terior when Congress rejected his request; 
Whereas, in 1877, President Ulysses S. Grant sought and re-
ceived permission from Congress pursuant to a joint reso-
lution to accept the Statue of Liberty on behalf of the 
United States as a gift from the government of France; 
Whereas, in 1896, Congress passed a joint resolution explic-
itly authorizing President Benjamin Harrison to accept 
medals presented to him by the governments of Brazil 
and Spain; 
Whereas President John F. Kennedy declined to accept hon-
orary Irish citizenship in 1963, in order to avoid violating 
even the spirit of the Foreign Emoluments Clause; 
Whereas President Donald Trump, through the Department 
of Defense, intends to accept a Boeing 747–8 aircraft 
that has been described as a ‘‘flying palace’’ with an esti-
mated value of at least $400,000,000 for temporary use 
as a Presidential transport aircraft during his term in of-
fice from the royal family of Qatar; 
Whereas ownership of this ‘‘flying palace’’ will reportedly 
transfer to President Trump’s personal Presidential li-
brary foundation no later than January 1, 2029; 
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Whereas President Trump stated at a news conference on 
May 12, 2025, when asked about this reported offer by 
the royal family of Qatar to donate the aircraft, ‘‘I would 
never be one to turn down that kind of an offer...I could 
be a stupid person and say, ‘no, we don’t want a free, 
very expensive airplane’ ’’; 
Whereas acceptance of the Qatari aircraft without the per-
mission of Congress would clearly violate the Foreign 
Emoluments Clause, while also posing significant na-
tional security dangers, including, not only in terms of 
the corruption and illegitimate influence that the framers 
anticipated, but also in terms of substantial additional 
risks of espionage against and surveillance of the Presi-
dent and other senior United States Government officials; 
and 
Whereas President Trump remarked that this unprecedented 
and extravagant gift from a foreign state would result in 
‘‘big savings [that] will be spent, instead, to MAKE 
AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’’, but, in fact, it would not 
replace the existing contract for retrofitting and modern-
izing Air Force One, and would instead require hundreds 
of millions or billions of dollars in new Federal Govern-
ment and taxpayer investment to retrofit and debug this 
gift from an autocratic foreign state: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that President Trump must comply with the 
Foreign Emoluments Clause by— 
(1) submitting all plans for this gift imme-
diately to Congress; and 
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(2) if he wishes to accept the ‘‘flying palace’’ 
from the royal family of Qatar as he says publicly 
he would like to do, obtaining the consent of Con-
gress before doing so, as have all of his predecessors 
in the Presidency in comparable circumstances. 
Æ 
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