The scramble to shape his administration underway,
President-elect Donald Trump’s team has simultaneously begun turning its
attention to raising tens of millions of dollars for festivities related to his
Washington inauguration.

Trump, who vowed during the campaign to “drain the
swamp” of special interests corrupting Washington, has set $1 million
donation limits for corporations and no limits for individual donors, according
to an official on the Presidential Inaugural Committee with direct knowledge of
tentative fundraising plans. At the same time, Trump’s inaugural committee will
not accept money from registered lobbyists, in line with his ban on hiring
lobbyists for his nascent administration.

Barack Obama set stricter limits on donations for his first
inauguration, in 2009, holding individual donors to $50,000 each and taking no
money from corporations or labor unions, as well as none from lobbyists and
some other groups.

Plenty of corporate executives, though, gave individually
and often at the maximum amount. And he opened the spigots for his 2013
inauguration, setting no limits on corporate or individual donations.

The new details, confirmed on Thursday on the condition of
anonymity because the official was not authorized to disclose private
deliberations, came as Trump gathered with family at his Palm Beach estate on
Thanksgiving.

It was a working holiday of sorts for Trump, who suggested
on Twitter that he was engaged in trying to prevent an Indiana air conditioning
company from moving jobs to Mexico.

“I am working hard, even on Thanksgiving, trying to get
Carrier AC Company to stay in the US,” Trump tweeted. “MAKING
PROGRESS – Will know soon!”

The company, which has announced plans to move 1,400 jobs to
Mexico from Indiana in the coming years, confirmed on Thursday it “has had
discussions with the incoming administration,” but said there was
“nothing to announce at this time.” On the eve of the national
holiday, the president-elect offered a prayer for unity after “a long and
bruising” campaign season.

“Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal
overnight,” Trump said in a video message on social media. He added,
“It’s my prayer that on this Thanksgiving we begin to heal our divisions
and move forward as one country strengthened by shared purpose and very, very
common resolve.”

Unity has emerged as a common theme during Trump’s limited
public appearances in the days since his stunning general election victory,
which followed a campaign season in which he rained extraordinary personal
attacks on his opponents in both parties, the media and his many Republican
critics.