Trump Thread

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Trump imposes lifetime ban on some lobbying, five years for others



Officially not business as usual for trump, and hopefully from now on the entire usa.

I find your lack of faith disturbing...


An inability to take the high road to instead follow the blind denergation of your opposition's example is nothing to take pride in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/u...ns-others.html

But Mr. Eisen and other ethics experts noted that rules banning lobbyists from taking any job with an agency they had tried to influence in the past two years had been removed. Also, the new rules allow departing executive branch employees to take private sector jobs and then informally lobby the administration, as long as they are not registered as a lobbyist, a type of activity previously prohibited for two years. Registration is required once a person does a certain amount of work for a client.“There is much to like,” Mr. Eisen said of the new executive order. “But it gives nonlobbyists too much leeway when they leave. That is where the biggest problem in the system is: unregistered, shadow lobbyists. They should be getting more regulation, not less.”
He also said, “Trump kept the Obama limits on the revolving door coming into government, but eliminated Obama’s revolving door protections for nonlobbyists leaving government.”

Not so much draining the swamp, as putting a curtain around it.