Today on TAP: Another merger settlement allows consolidation in health care; UnitedHealth’s lobbyist was MAGA’s biggest firm.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Second Gilded Age Is Resembling the First
It’s the return of rotten boroughs, railroad barons, and constant graft.
Posted inLaw and Justice
DOJ Does MAGA Lobbyist Bidding Again, Shutters Another Antitrust Case
Pam Bondi’s old lobbying firm, Ballard Partners, pushed to move through a business travel merger. Bondi’s DOJ did it, in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Law That Could Blow Open Trump Antitrust Corruption
Lobbyist meddling to get a critical merger case approved could face sunlight thanks to a 1974 law called the Tunney Act, which allows a judge to investigate the outcome.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Elon Musk’s Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?
Posted inPolitics
AIPAC Demands Democrats ‘Stand With Israel’
The pro-Israel lobbying group has sent a flurry of communications to members of Congress, citing specific language for them to parrot in support of Israel’s strikes on Iran.
Posted inWorking in America
The Escalating, Bloody Exploitation of Meat Workers Under Trump
Conditions in meatpacking plants are set to return to scenes from ‘The Jungle.’
Posted inTransportation
Industry Lobbyists Pitch Driverless ‘Ghost Trains’ Across America
Buoyed by Trump’s deregulatory agenda, rail companies press for cost-cutting measures that could undermine railroad safety.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Senior Advisor McHenry at Your Crypto Service
The former congressman is the most employed man in D.C.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
The successful IRS free tax filing program is being wound down, thanks in large part to Intuit’s copious spending in Washington.