Tag: lobbyists

Biden Administration Requests Ethics Rules Be Ignored for Union Bosses Appointed to Top Administration Positions

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.

Biden has relied heavily on labor union personnel to fill vacancies within his administration, which in turn helps drive policy in their favor, according to the report. Biden gave the unions a huge voice within the federal bureaucracy “at the cost of strictly adhering to his own stringent ethics standards,” the report showed.

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The Top ‘Owners’ Of America’s President-Elect Joe Biden

Top Contributors, federal election data for Joe Biden, 2020 cycle

totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

  1. Bloomberg LP [Michael Bloomberg] $56,796,137
  2. Future Forward USA [largely Dustin Moskowitz] $29,917,229
  3. Priorities USA/Priorities USA Action [Hillary backers] $25,841,199
  4. Asana  [Moskowitz & Rosenstein] $21,937,902
  5. Sixteen Thirty Fund [dark money] $19,874,655
  6. Democracy PAC [George Soros] $19,000,000
  7. Senate Majority PAC [Democratic billionaires] $12,371,874
  8. American Bridge 21st Century [largely Soros] $10,260,573
  9. Paloma Partners [Donald Sussman] $9,016,248
  10. Euclidean Capital [James Simons] $7,006,805

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