The powerful lobbyist behind Kevin McCarthy.
A worker hangs a sign bearing Kevin McCarthy's name after McCarthy was sworn in as Speaker of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 7, 2023.
Miller’s clients include Apple, Anheuser-Busch, Dow Chemical, General Electric, the Wall Street giant Blackstone, Occidental Petroleum, the drugmaker trade group PhRMA, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other companies — some of them girding for scrutiny from Republicans eager to take on what they see as anti-conservative bias among “woke” corporations.
Miller added, “I just want to be known as a guy who works hard for my clients and does right by my friends,” adding that “everything else is just noise.” The following morning featured a breakfast for donors and freshman House Republicans held at the Washington offices of one of Miller’s lobbying clients — Altria, the tobacco and e-cigarette company. Since July 2017, Altria has donated nearly $1.4 million to a super PAC associated with McCarthy and paid $1.3 million to Miller’s firm.Miller, 48, met McCarthy, 58, in the early 1990s.
Miller, who spends much of his time with his family in Austin, paid nearly $3 million for a two-bedroom condominium at CityCenterDC, a location favored by the Trump set, that he would turn into the nerve center of what would become one of the leading influence operations in town. Two days after Miller registered to represent the company, its chief executive, Hock E. Tan — who until then had only made a single federal political donation — gave $65,000 to political committees linked to McCarthy, according to Federal Election Commission records.
About two weeks after the Oval Office event, Broadcom announced that it had finalized one of the acquisitions, having won approval from the U.S. government with assistance from Miller and his team. Broadcom’s larger acquisition — of rival chipmaker Qualcomm — was subsequently blocked by Trump, who cited national security concerns.
Musk, the billionaire technology entrepreneur, has been a donor to McCarthy for more than a decade, and one of his companies — the rocket manufacturer and NASA contractor SpaceX — has operations in McCarthy’s hometown, Bakersfield, California. But Miller’s connections to McCarthy’s conference remained valuable for some of the world’s biggest companies.
At a lunch at the private Capitol Hill Club, Miller pulled aside one Republican co-sponsor for whom he had raised money, Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas. Critics thought they detected Miller’s fingerprints. Fox News host Tucker Carlson asserted on his show, which is influential on the anti-corporate populist right, that Miller’s lobbying for Amazon and Apple was “one potential explanation” for McCarthy’s opposition to the antitrust bills.“Are you shocked that Kevin McCarthy is doing what his corporate clients want him to do?” he added. “Maybe you shouldn’t be.
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