lobbyists

The eminently fake attack from Business Insider on Donald Trump Jr., in which the German-owned publication falsely compared him to Hunter Biden, has now cost its parent company Axel Springer a $500,000 lobbyist contract.

During his first term, the “resistance” to President Donald Trump’s agenda began on many different streets across American cities. But this time around, it’s still getting organized on one downtown DC street in particular: K Street.

Senior Capitol Hill staffers and K Street lobbyists, both hoping for the status quo to continue in Washington, DC, seemingly despise Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as former President Donald Trump’s running mate.

A Democrat Senate candidate in Maryland, who has claimed she is “not beholden” to corporate interests or lobbyists, has reportedly received a wave of donations from lobbyists and other corporate officials.

The Daily Caller on Thursday published a report that found Chinese military companies have spent over $24 million on lobbying the U.S. government since 2020. 

The fossil fuel industry is cashing in on the $7.5 billion for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that President Joe Biden approved in the Inflation Reduction Act, lobbying to have the stations built at existing gas station locations.

Sen. Bob Casey publicly berated Norfolk Southern Railroad after the East Palestine disaster, but privately he directed federal funds their way only days after accepting a campaign donation from their high-powered lobbyist.

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has reportedly massively ramped up its lobbying efforts amid scrutiny of its app’s harm to American teenagers and the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Democrat Sen. Jon Tester (MT) received tens of thousands of dollars from Boeing lobbyists and failed to disclose a meeting at a Boeing facility attended by one of its lobbyists last October, Politico reported.

Some members of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration are allegedly soliciting donations from lobbyists, according to reports. 

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is running to fill one of Michigan’s U.S. Senate seats in 2024, touted a partnership Wednesday she made with a left-wing group that pushes extreme policy positions such as abolishing cash bail, amnesty for illegals, and ending the filibuster.

An ethics watchdog is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) for potentially violating House ethics rules by accepting money for his legal defense fund from a registered lobbyist.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), who is up for reelection in 2024 in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, appears to have violated a federal law meant to stop members of Congress from insider trading, Breitbart News has learned.

The number of lobbyists from fossil fuel companies attending the COP27 climate change conference has increased by 25 per cent over last year.

Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has accepted $436,000 from lobbyists in the 2022 campaign cycle from industries such as big tech, fossil fuel, and Wall Street, according to Open Secrets. 

Pennsylvania Republican Jim Bognet, running in the Keystone State’s Eighth Congressional District, slammed his “slippery and corrupt” opponent, Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright, on Breitbart News Saturday, for taking tens of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and corporate PACs with connections to Saudi Arabia.

Several thousand people marching on behalf of a powerful native tribe lobby within Ecuador called the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) entered Quito on Monday night demanding financial concessions from the nation’s federal government, Semana magazine reported Tuesday.

Spain has not fully implemented any of the 19 anti-corruption measures recommended by Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO, a report claims.

White House counselor Steve Ricchetti’s brother, Jeff Ricchetti, plans to lobby on behalf of a foreign company that developed a vaccine for the coronavirus.

Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, who laid siege to the capital city of Tripoli for 14 months until Turkish military intervention pushed his forces back in June 2020, has hired former Bill Clinton senior aide Lanny Davis and former Republican congressman Bob Livingston of Louisiana as lobbyists. Haftar is apparently trying to exert some influence over the next Libyan election, or possibly run for the presidency himself.

President Joe Biden invited a lobbying firm executive with ties to Haiti who has not formally worked on Cuba issues for decades to join Cuban celebrities and businesspeople for a Zoom call on protests in the communist nation Tuesday.

Washington DC has been awash in lobbyist money for well over a century, but the biggest players shift with the times. Today, the biggest of the big league lobbying comes from Big Tech, with companies like Facebook and Google pouring tens of millions of dollars into think tanks, advocacy organizations, and academic institutions to stall the backlash against their industry.

With their brands in tatters and public trust declining, the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are using small businesses to push their agenda in Washington DC, according to a new report from a left-wing think tank.

Rep. Ken Buck is continuing to co-sponsor and promote a bill that would allow big media companies to form a cartel to pressure tech companies for more censorship and special favors by creating a special antitrust carve-out for them.

The Biden administration has been requesting that union bosses, after being appointed to top administration positions, be excluded from ethics rules that bar them from being lobbied by their former union.

President Donald Trump, on his last night in the White House, has revoked his executive order that he signed in 2017, which banned administration officials from becoming Washington, DC, lobbyists for five years after leaving their jobs.

Democrat Joe Biden has stacked his transition team, after the establishment media called the presidential election for him, with at least 40 lobbyists, according to the latest estimate. 

A list of Biden campaign bundlers includes the head of pro-Iranian organizations senators say should be investigated as foreign lobbyists.

Republican Matt Mowers edged out Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District race, according to a poll released Thursday, following Mowers confronting Pappas about his relationship with a lobbyist during a debate last week.

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is planning to build back the Washington, DC, political class to business as usual as his advisers have started meeting with K Street lobbyists who are eager for President Trump to leave office.

Bradley Smith, a law professor and former Republican Federal Election Commissioner, is set to serve on the board of a new advocacy group aimed at defending Big Tech companies from regulation. Smith previously ran the “Institute for Free Speech,” which similarly opposed the regulation of Silicon Valley giants

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the $1.4 trillion spending bill that passed the House and Senate this week and was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Friday.

A recent report claims that Facebook lobbyists have worked for 29 current members of Congress, including Democratic party leaders.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday floated two potential individuals she would consider including in her administration, both of whom would violate her pledge to stand against lobbyists and giant firms.

The chair of a new super PAC supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential bid is a registered foreign agent for Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic, according to The Federalist.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday unveiled her plan to target lobbyists in the form of an “excessive lobbying tax,” despite the fact that she has benefited from lobbyist activities in the past.