U.S Customs and Border Protection has been detaining children in squalid conditions at the border. See which companies sell their goods and services to the agency and where they’re headquartered.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
These Corporations and Public Charities Funded the State Abortion Bans
A Sludge investigation has uncovered the sources of millions of dollars behind advocacy efforts to pass a slew of state abortion bans this year.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Medicare for All Became a Dirty Word
Richard Neal’s recent contributors include multiple companies represented in anti-Medicare for All lobbying group the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future.
Posted inLaw and Justice
McConnell’s Tobacco 21 Bill Exposes States to Big Tobacco’s Wishlist
McConnell has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tobacco industry, and some of his former staffers now lobby for tobacco giant Altria.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
DCCC Vendors Work for Corporations Lobbying Against Democratic Policies
The DCCC has blacklisted vendors that work with progressive challengers, but it continues to pay those whose corporate clients work to block policies like net neutrality and Medicare for All.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Hedge-Fund Billionaires Were Democrats’ Main Bankrollers in 2018
A new report shows that three-quarters of the money that individuals donated to pro-Democrat outside spending groups in 2018 came from finance founders and executives.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Dems Overseeing Finance Industry Take Money from Group Supporting Racist Auto Lending
Alerted to the contributions, House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters tells Sludge she will better vet her campaign contributors.
