Advancing corporate America’s interests is no easier under the CEO president
. The chief-executive-in-chief has filled his cabinet with fellow plutocrats, executives and, horrors, lobbyists. One who used to represent the coal industry runs the Environmental Protection Agency . The acting interior secretary, David Bernhardt, risks so many potential conflicts of interest from his previous life lobbying for energy and natural-resources firms that he carries around a card listing all 22 of them. Last year businesses spent more than $3.
More counterintuitively, currying favour with Mr Trump’s supposedly business-friendly administration is no picnic, either. Lobbyists cite four main reasons. Third, respectable businesses promoting their legitimate interests worry about being sullied by association with Mr Trump’s entourage, or his views. His campaign manager and personal lawyer have been sentenced to prison terms. The president himself is under investigation for alleged campaign-finance violations. A veteran lobbyist turned unregistered influencer is convinced that “everything will be investigated at some point”. She makes sure all her contacts with government are above board.
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