Trump’s Secretive ‘Deep Industry’ Teams Hired To Roll Back Regulations

Trump, who spent his business career on the other side of government regulations, has put an emphasis on cutting old rules.

Robert Faturechi
Danielle Ivory
By Robert Faturechi
And Danielle Ivory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt holds up a hardhat he was given during a visit to Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company's Harvey Mine in Sycamore, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2017. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks, he ordered his administration to assemble teams to aggressively scale back government regulations. But the effort 2014 a signature theme in Trump's populist campaign for the White House 2014 is being conducted in large part out of public view and often by political

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WaPo Gives Raytheon Lobbyist Free Range To Publish Pro-War Editorials

The Washington Post has given Ed Rogers, top lobbyist for Raytheon, an outlet for his blatantly pro-war editorials. The Post has failed to disclose Roger’s ties to the weapons manufacturer – whose missiles were used in last week’s strike against Syria – generating yet another conflict of interest for the CIA-funded and Bezos-owned paper.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Raytheon lobbyist and Washington Post contributor Ed Rogers appears on CBNC (screenshot).

MINNEAPOLIS - The Washington Post, the capital’s paper of record, is at again – pushing war propaganda and failing to disclose glaring conflict of interests within the paper, particularly regarding one of its contributors whose ties to the nation’s largest weapons manufacturers have been conveniently omitted from his WaPo editorials. As Media

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Liquor Regulators Are Partying On Texas Taxpayers’ Tab

Texas alcohol regulators know how to party: records show they’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars to travel to swanky resorts where liquor flows and industry lobbyists abound.

Jay Root
By Jay Root
This graphic humorously references a trip that top state liquor regulators took to the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators in 2015 at a cost of more than $7,000 in taxpayer money. The illustration was created by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission during work hours on a state computer with input from top agency officials, records show. Pictured from left to right are TABC Director Sherry Cook, Licensing Director Amy Harrison, Analyst Jesse Valdez and then-TABC technology contractor Jim Harrison.

No agency can kill a buzz quicker than the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, but behind the scenes state liquor regulators have shown they know how to party — all on the tab of taxpayers and members of an industry they oversee. Consider the boozy junket the top TABC brass took to San Diego in the summer of 2015 — depicted in a humorous

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White House: Trump Unaware Flynn Was A Foreign Agent

White House press secretary Sean Spicer says Donald Trump was unaware former national security adviser Michael Flynn was working as a ‘foreign agent’ when he gave him the job.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Spicer answered questions about the Dakota Pipeline, infrastructure, jobs and other topics. (AP/Susan Walsh)

(REPORT) --- The White House is once again scrambling to do damage control today, as National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned last month, registered this week as the agent of a foreign government related to his company’s lobbying on behalf of Turkey. White House officials were quick to insist that President Trump was ‘unaware’ this

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Obama’s New Appointee To Head The FDA Is A Big Pharma Mega-Lobbyist

While at Duke, Robert M. Califf received millions in funding and salary support from Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, and other drug companies.

Carey Wedler
By Carey Wedler
While at Duke, Robert M. Califf received millions in funding and salary support from Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, and other drug companies.

(ANTIMEDIA) President Obama’s recent nominee to chair the Food and Drug Administration has drawn harsh criticism for his ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The disapproval grew more justified this week as it was revealed that until this year, nominee Dr. Robert Califf was a board member and consultant for a company whose sole purpose is to help

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Why Don’t We Have Single Payer Health Care? Ask Medical Lobbyists

The health care industry was at its most generous in 2009, when there were eight lobbyists for every member of Congress.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Roberta Crawford, 89, wears a sticker in support of single payer health care

MINNEAPOLIS --- When it comes to lobbying Washington, no single industry can match the lobbying power of the health care industry. The medical field, from pharmaceutical companies to doctors’ associations, has already spent over $120 million on lobbying this year. The influence of the health sector on the U.S. government is not a new one -- the

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