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he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"Novo Nordisk has publicly and openly advocated for changes to our health care system to benefit patients, and as part of those efforts, we participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagements,\" a Novo Nordisk spokeswoman told The Independent in a statement. Our company operations demonstrate our steadfast dedication to moral business behavior and completely conform to applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Novo Nordisk spent $3 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year, according to a Politico analysis of lobbying data<\/a>. Eli Lilly, a fellow maker of the weight-loss medications Zepbound and Mounjaro, also spent $3 million on lobbying overall. According to the site, the two businesses enlisted the assistance of over ten lobbying firms, including Avoq, Holland & Knight, and Williams and Jensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Novo Nordisk has publicly and openly advocated for changes to our health care system to benefit patients, and as part of those efforts, we participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagements,\" a Novo Nordisk spokeswoman told The Independent in a statement. Our company operations demonstrate our steadfast dedication to moral business behavior and completely conform to applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The FDA said earlier this year that a years-long scarcity of semaglutide (Ozempic) was over, which led to an increase in illegal and counterfeit forms of the medication. According to the FDA's website, those versions, referred to as compounded medications, \"can be risky for patients, as unapproved versions do not undergo FDA's review for safety, effectiveness, and quality before they are marketed.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Novo Nordisk spent $3 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year, according to a Politico analysis of lobbying data<\/a>. Eli Lilly, a fellow maker of the weight-loss medications Zepbound and Mounjaro, also spent $3 million on lobbying overall. According to the site, the two businesses enlisted the assistance of over ten lobbying firms, including Avoq, Holland & Knight, and Williams and Jensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Novo Nordisk has publicly and openly advocated for changes to our health care system to benefit patients, and as part of those efforts, we participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagements,\" a Novo Nordisk spokeswoman told The Independent in a statement. Our company operations demonstrate our steadfast dedication to moral business behavior and completely conform to applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to documents, major pharmaceutical companies have already spent more than $3 million urging the government to crack down on imitation weight-loss medications. Politico claims that Novo Nordisk, the company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, has engaged a number of lobbying firms to pressure politicians to adopt a tougher stance against businesses manufacturing unapproved copies of the medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDA said earlier this year that a years-long scarcity of semaglutide (Ozempic) was over, which led to an increase in illegal and counterfeit forms of the medication. According to the FDA's website, those versions, referred to as compounded medications, \"can be risky for patients, as unapproved versions do not undergo FDA's review for safety, effectiveness, and quality before they are marketed.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Novo Nordisk spent $3 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year, according to a Politico analysis of lobbying data<\/a>. Eli Lilly, a fellow maker of the weight-loss medications Zepbound and Mounjaro, also spent $3 million on lobbying overall. According to the site, the two businesses enlisted the assistance of over ten lobbying firms, including Avoq, Holland & Knight, and Williams and Jensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Novo Nordisk has publicly and openly advocated for changes to our health care system to benefit patients, and as part of those efforts, we participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagements,\" a Novo Nordisk spokeswoman told The Independent in a statement. Our company operations demonstrate our steadfast dedication to moral business behavior and completely conform to applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Accommodations and road and rail connections are seen to be the main obstacles to holding the Open in Turnberry. More than twice as many fans\u2014278,000\u2014are expected to attend this year's event at Royal Portrush, which drew 120,000 in 2009.<\/p>\n","post_title":"UK Government rejects claims it lobbied for Trump Turnberry Open bid","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"uk-government-rejects-claims-it-lobbied-for-trump-turnberry-open-bid","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 20:42:58","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 20:42:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7691","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7684,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-30 14:19:29","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:29","post_content":"\n According to documents, major pharmaceutical companies have already spent more than $3 million urging the government to crack down on imitation weight-loss medications. Politico claims that Novo Nordisk, the company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, has engaged a number of lobbying firms to pressure politicians to adopt a tougher stance against businesses manufacturing unapproved copies of the medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDA said earlier this year that a years-long scarcity of semaglutide (Ozempic) was over, which led to an increase in illegal and counterfeit forms of the medication. According to the FDA's website, those versions, referred to as compounded medications, \"can be risky for patients, as unapproved versions do not undergo FDA's review for safety, effectiveness, and quality before they are marketed.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Novo Nordisk spent $3 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year, according to a Politico analysis of lobbying data<\/a>. Eli Lilly, a fellow maker of the weight-loss medications Zepbound and Mounjaro, also spent $3 million on lobbying overall. According to the site, the two businesses enlisted the assistance of over ten lobbying firms, including Avoq, Holland & Knight, and Williams and Jensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Novo Nordisk has publicly and openly advocated for changes to our health care system to benefit patients, and as part of those efforts, we participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagements,\" a Novo Nordisk spokeswoman told The Independent in a statement. Our company operations demonstrate our steadfast dedication to moral business behavior and completely conform to applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"We regularly engage with Government and local government regarding venues,\" stated an R&A spokesperson. The government is aware of the situation after we informed them of the logistical difficulties around Turnberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accommodations and road and rail connections are seen to be the main obstacles to holding the Open in Turnberry. More than twice as many fans\u2014278,000\u2014are expected to attend this year's event at Royal Portrush, which drew 120,000 in 2009.<\/p>\n","post_title":"UK Government rejects claims it lobbied for Trump Turnberry Open bid","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"uk-government-rejects-claims-it-lobbied-for-trump-turnberry-open-bid","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 20:42:58","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 20:42:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7691","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7684,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-30 14:19:29","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:29","post_content":"\n According to documents, major pharmaceutical companies have already spent more than $3 million urging the government to crack down on imitation weight-loss medications. Politico claims that Novo Nordisk, the company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, has engaged a number of lobbying firms to pressure politicians to adopt a tougher stance against businesses manufacturing unapproved copies of the medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDA said earlier this year that a years-long scarcity of semaglutide (Ozempic) was over, which led to an increase in illegal and counterfeit forms of the medication. According to the FDA's website, those versions, referred to as compounded medications, \"can be risky for patients, as unapproved versions do not undergo FDA's review for safety, effectiveness, and quality before they are marketed.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Novo Nordisk spent $3 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year, according to a Politico analysis of lobbying data<\/a>. Eli Lilly, a fellow maker of the weight-loss medications Zepbound and Mounjaro, also spent $3 million on lobbying overall. According to the site, the two businesses enlisted the assistance of over ten lobbying firms, including Avoq, Holland & Knight, and Williams and Jensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Novo Nordisk has publicly and openly advocated for changes to our health care system to benefit patients, and as part of those efforts, we participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagements,\" a Novo Nordisk spokeswoman told The Independent in a statement. Our company operations demonstrate our steadfast dedication to moral business behavior and completely conform to applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manufacturers of compounds (compounders) were legally<\/a> allowed to use chemicals from FDA-approved manufacturers when the FDA notified shortages of Wegovy in March 2022 and for Wegovy and Ozempic in August 2022. With the shortage now declared to be over, unauthorized versions have been banned, though the FDA has granted additional time for compounders to scale back operations and customers to switch treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another complication for the firms and their lobbyists is that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Health and Human Services Secretary has previously voiced opposition to weight-loss medications. In October, Kennedy responded to a study indicating that Ozempic could potentially aid in treating issues such as drug addiction, sleep apnea, and cognitive decline. The newly appointed health secretary asserted that pharmaceutical companies were attempting to market the drug to Americans \u201cbecause we\u2019re so stupid and so addicted to drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lobbyists are making an effort to modify their proposals appropriately. Shawn O'Neail, an Eli Lilly in-house lobbyist, told Politico that while medication isn't always the solution, lifestyle and food alone might often be insufficient to prevent or treat chronic conditions like obesity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"That's where medicine can help, as part of a comprehensive strategy to treat chronic illness.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Independent represents a lot of things, frequently in a unique way. It makes its own decisions on current topics and remains impartial toward political parties. Debate and challenge have always been important to The Independent. In order to provide a fresh voice, it was founded in 1986. Since then, it has supported causes ranging from the Final Say Brexit petition to the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Weight-loss drug giant boosts D.C. lobbying to over $3M amid regulatory pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"weight-loss-drug-giant-boosts-d-c-lobbying-to-over-3m-amid-regulatory-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-30 14:19:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7684","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:38","post_content":"\n According to a New York Times report, top universities under President Trump<\/a>'s scrutiny have significantly upped their lobbying expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation found that in the first three months of 2025, ten colleges that the administration has singled out for inspection spent a total of $2.8 million lobbying the federal government, more than those institutions had spent in any quarter at least since 2008. In February, eight institutions were singled out for inquiry by a government task group that claims to be committed to eliminating antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the data, Columbia University, one of the ten, more than quadrupled its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period the previous year. Harvard University likewise significantly raised its lobbying expenditures, spending $230,000 as opposed to $130,000 during the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, lobbyists want to meet with congressional and White House personnel to address issues that impact the organizations they represent. According to public records, those issues for the targeted institutions in the first several months of 2025 included, among other things, showcasing university research, advocating financial aid for students, and outlining antisemitic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Businesses that are sensitive to conservative sentiments are being sought by colleges that the Trump administration has accused of being leftist strongholds. Businesses with Republican affiliations are receiving a large portion of the increased lobbying expenditures. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the amount that the schools spent on hired lobbying companies rose by over 150 per cent this year. According to the research, these colleges relied on Republican-affiliated lobbyists much more than they had the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, Northwestern University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and two campuses within the University of California system are among the ten universities listed by the antisemitism task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to the same period last year, nine out of ten colleges increased their lobbying expenditures in the first three months of 2025. In addition to reporting the same amount, the 10th U.S.C. introduced a new topic that was absent the previous year: \"Issues related to Antisemitism.\" The largest amount in the analysis, $930,000, was spent in the first quarter of 2025 by the University of California system, which advocates on behalf of its ten institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northwestern University saw the largest annual increase, spending $607,000, more than five times the amount for the first quarter of 2024. Yet this month, $790<\/a> million in funding for Northwestern was frozen by the Trump administration. Universities have prepared for attacks by the federal government, which has suggested reducing billions of dollars in research grants and contracts to colleges and universities in a number of ways, including through lobbying activities. In addition, the administration has threatened to change the accreditation procedure, raise taxes on university endowments, and, in some situations, remove tax exemptions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Colleges increase lobbying efforts amid rising political pressure","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"colleges-increase-lobbying-efforts-amid-rising-political-pressure","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:20:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7670","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7669,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:26","post_content":"\n A former Trump attorney holds a ring: One of President Donald Trump<\/a>'s personal lawyers is also entering the lobbying industry. Launching NexusOne Consulting, Jim Trusty and seasoned gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah, who established Ifrah Law, where Trusty has spent the last eight years working, will counsel clients in the nascent technology sector on shifting trends in social media regulation, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to assisting Trump throughout special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into secret papers and the investigations into Trump's purported attempts to sabotage the 2020 election, Trusty assisted in leading Trump's D.C.-based legal staff between administrations. After Trump was indicted in 2023 in the papers case, which, like the election obstruction charge, has since been dropped, Trusty left Trump's legal team. Another seasoned member of Trump's legal teams, Evan Corcoran, is currently employed at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former federal prosecutor, Ifrah is now a sought-after lawyer for issues involving sports betting and the gambling business. Additionally, he was a founding member of the iDevelopment and Economic Association, a club for the gaming business. Ifrah stated in an interview that Trump started circling the topic of \"Was there something to do with the fact that we now had a former client in the White House?\" following his election victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the goal of NexusOne is <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"to assist our clients in the crypto AI and digital sectors to utilise our connections in the White House and executive branch, aiming for their inclusion in policy discussions accelerates.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n He cited the Trump administration's pledge to enact a historic AI policy and its retreat from the aggressive crypto enforcement posture of the Biden era, which Ifrah claimed had closed many of the crypto clients his firm had previously worked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"It appeared that there was a chance to truly represent our clients in a manner that differed from how we represented them previously,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n he continued, adding that up until recently, that approach has been reactive or defensive rather than proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ifrah, the business anticipates working on issues pertaining to drones, prediction markets, data privacy, and social media corporations in addition<\/a> to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Saildrone lobbyist Ross Branson, who worked in the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration, will also become managing director of the new company.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Another Trump attorney joins lobbying efforts amid ongoing legal scrutiny","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-trump-attorney-joins-lobbying-efforts-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 13:17:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7669","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":46},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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