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GameStop saga may provide early test of Biden administration ethics pledges
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Yves here. America’s relationship with the military is becoming more and more unhealthy. The “all volunteer” service is a cover for shifting the human cost of service mainly onto young men and women who lack better career prospects, as in members of the lower/lower middle classes who lack the family monies and connections to have more attractive options. And while that deal once might have seemed attractive between government-funded higher education, medical care, and pensions, extended tours of duty have changed this equation. And while it used to be members of the right that were subject to hard-ons for men in uniform (as opposed to a mere healthy respect for military service), Team Dem has more recently gone into swoons over current and former senior military men in the wake of RussiaRussia! Recall that Lambert and others warned of the Clinton camp’s lobbying for a change in the Constitutional order, including the incoming President having to be acceptable the Pentagon.
Biden may be stuck with some Trumpists
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President Biden signed new sweeping ethics rules, but waivers remain a loophole, and watchdog groups say the pledge stops short of full reform.
Under the new
order, executive branch officials must pledge not to lobby their former agency for two years, but waivers can be issued if it is in the public interest.
The decision falls to the Office of Management and Budget, to be led by Director Neera Tanden, once confirmed by the Senate. Tanden, as the head of the liberal Center American Progress and its political arm, the Center for American Progress Action Fund,
raised millions from Silicon Valley and Big Tech firms.
President Joe Biden banned his senior advisers from accepting lucrative bonuses from their former employers for joining his administration in an effort to curb efforts by companies to influence the White House’s agenda.
Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that also prohibits top administration appointees from lobbying senior White House staff for a time, usually two years, after they leave the government, an addition to the current ban against trying to influence former agency colleagues.
The restrictions will also apply to what’s known as “shadow lobbying,” in which former officials advise their new K Street colleagues how to influence the the government. Biden’s ban affects those who would plan outreach to their former agencies and the White House.
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