The lawmakers suggested the companies used contributions to “cozy up” to President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to avoid regulatory scrutiny.

OpenAI CEO and co-founder OpenAI clapped back at two Democratic senators’ inquiry into his $1 million personal donation to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund, quipping on Friday he was not subject to the same scrutiny for his past donations to Democrats.

The two major tech companies are just the latest to donate to Trump’s inaugural fund — joining Meta, Amazon and the chief executives at OpenAI and Apple.

Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump' s inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try and curry some goodwill with the incoming administration.

Some donors didn’t contribute to Biden’s fund, but the outgoing president received big donations from other companies.

United Airlines stated on Friday January 17th that the company will donate $1 Million to soon to be President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. United Airlines CEO, Scott Kirby, plans on attending multiple events regarding Donald Trump being put into office over the holiday weekend.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on Senate Democrats questioning his motivations over donating a million dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. Altman was sent a letter accusing him and other Big Tech CEOs of an apparent “effort toinfluence and sway the actions and policies of the incoming administration” from Sens.