I understand that there is an obligation that comes from being an american citizen, and as far as im concerned, that is particularly sho so for new immigrants. I dont ask you i didnt ask if i could come here, i just showed up and said, right, lets do it. Were here at new immigrants saying, please, let us join your country, and i hope thatll be a positive answer. Youve certainly indicated youd like to see that, but the obligation to be positive about this country, i think, is even greater for new immigrants. Thats how i see it. All right, speaking of immigration and before we dive into this weeks big debate, just some context on President Trump and immigrants. Not long ago he published a plan to reform our Legal Immigration system. It would welcome just as many legal immigrants as now, except the system would be meritbased. Heres what he told me about it. We need people. We need people. And our unemployment now is down to 3. 6, and i think its going to go a lot lower. Were doing really
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‘That’s where we get the leg up’: How former government officials boost Amazon’s cloud computing unit
Amazon Web Services is snapping up former government officials who can help them gain access to lucrative federal contracts.
Amazon employs more than 1 million people overall, after adding 500,000 new jobs last year alone. | Steven Senne/AP Photo
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Amazon’s massive cloud-computing unit is aggressively recruiting U.S. government officials as it pushes to make itself essential to branches such as the military and the intelligence community, a POLITICO analysis has found.
Since 2018, Amazon Web Services has hired at least 66 former government officials with acquisition, procurement or technology adoption experience, most hired directly away from government posts and more than half of them from the Defense Department. That’s a small portion of AWS’ tens of thousands of employees, but a particularly key group to its federal business. Other AWS hires
unbelievably, he did not even recuse himself when he allegedly received the offer, despite the government regulation that bans this exact kind of conflict of interest. none of this is a surprise when you realize just how swampy amazon is. look how many senior executive branch officials, some of whom were literally responsible for procurement, recently left the government and spun round amazon s revolving door. not just deep ubi, but also christine halverson, scott renda, victor gavin, raul prabakhar, on and on it goes. and then there s the lobbying. amazon spent $14.2 billion in 2018 all under the direction and guidance of president obama s former spokesman jay carney who s now amazon s head of public policy and communications. oh, and the $14 million they ve spent on lobbying doesn t even include other swampy ways amazon
working on the jedi program. unbelievably, he did not even recuse himself when he allegedly received the offer, despite the government regulation that bans this exact kind of conflict of interest. none of this is a surprise when you realize just how swampy amazon is. look how many senior executive branch officials, some of whom were literally responsible for procurement, recently left the government and spun round amazon s revolving door. not just deep ubi, but also christine halverson, scott renda, victor gavin, raul prabakhar, on and on it goes. and then there s the lobbying. amazon spent $14.2 billion in 2018 all under the direction and guidance of president obama s former spokesman jay carney who s now amazon s head of public policy and communications. oh, and the $14 million they ve spent on lobbying doesn t even include other swampy ways amazon