"If I'm elected president, I'm accepting no salary."
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For the second quarter in a row, President Donald Trump declined to take a salary and opted instead to gift the quarterly installment to a government entity, this time to the Department of Education.
At a White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders presented a check for $100,000 to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
DeVos said the funding would go toward hosting a camp for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students at the Department of Education.
"We want to encourage as many children as possible to explore STEM fields in the hope that many develop a passion for these fields," DeVos said.
Trump donated his first quarter salary of about $78,000 to the National Park Service.
Sanders said the first quarter funds went toward restoring two projects at a national battlefield. She added that additional donations brought the total first quarter gift to over $260,000.
Trump's donations are consistent with the billionaire businessman's campaign pledge to forgo a salary if elected.