Trump has appointed at least seven people who used to be lobbyists to cabinet-level positions.
In just three years in office, President Donald Trump has appointed more ex-lobbyists to cabinet-level positions than both Barack Obama and George W. Bush did during their two terms in the Oval Office.published on Tuesday by the Associated Press, the number of former lobbyists who currently work or used to work in the Trump administration now totals seven. Meanwhile, in Obama's eight years as president he appointed five former lobbyists, while Bush appointed only thee.
Pizzella took over the Labor Department after its former chief Alex Acosta stepped down earlier this year amid backlash over his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, Pizzella's proposed replacement Eugene Scalia is also a former lobbyist. Trump's acting chief for the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, is also a former lobbyist. Before joining the environmental agency Wheeler lobbied for Murray Energy Corp, the country's biggest underground coal mining company.
But in the early days of his presidency, Trump issued an executive order that got rid of a number of lobbying restrictions that Obama had put in place. The order had removed the restriction barring lobbyists from taking on roles in the administration within any agency they had lobbied against in the previous two years.
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