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safeinOhio

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Mon Nov 11, 2019, 07:45 AM Nov 2019

We Found a "Staggering" 281 Lobbyists Who've Worked in the Trump Administration

At the halfway mark of President Donald Trump’s first term, his administration has hired a lobbyist for every 14 political appointments made, welcoming a total of 281 lobbyists on board, a ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations analysis shows.
With a combination of weakened rules and loose enforcement easing the transition to government and back to K Street, Trump’s swamp is anything but drained. The number of lobbyists who have served in government jobs is four times more than the Obama administration had six years into office. And former lobbyists serving Trump are often involved in regulating the industries they worked for.

ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-administration

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We Found a "Staggering" 281 Lobbyists Who've Worked in the Trump Administration (Original Post) safeinOhio Nov 2019 OP
that's govt of, by, and for the corrupt Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2019 #1
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