Despite agreeing to five-year bans, at least six former administration officials are registered lobbyists and others are doing similar work without registering.
by Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski
by Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski
Lobbyists who joined the Trump administration and now want to return to their old trade have a problem: President Trump said they can’t.
Days after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order
requiring every political appointee to sign a pledge as a condition of
taking office. The appointees agreed not to lobby the agencies they had
worked in for five years after they left government service. Nor would
they lobby anyone in the White House or political appointees across
federal agencies for the duration of the Trump administration.
But never doubt the ingenuity of the Washington swamp class. At least
eight former Trump officials have found ways around the so-called
ethics pledge.
Using staffing lists compiled for ProPublica’s Trump Town,
the first exhaustive database of current political appointees, we found
at least 184 people who have left the Trump administration. Of those,
at least six former officials are now registered lobbyists and several
others work at firms in roles that resemble lobbying in all but name.
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Source: ProPublica
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