Former President Donald Trump has revoked Biden-era ethics rules that barred former executive branch employees from lobbying for two years. This move opens the door for immediate lobbying by former government officials, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and the exploitation of power for personal gain.
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But it also marks a departure from when Trump began his first term in 2017 and signed an ethics order banning executive branch employees from becoming lobbyists for five years.current and former members of his administration from those rules in one of his final acts before leaving office in 2020, though. And that mirrored President Bill Clinton instituting stricter ethics rules only to roll them back shortly before he left office.
During a 2022 interview with podcast host Theo Von, Trump said, “I was not a big person for lobbyists."
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