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| Ethics? Trump Packs White House With Industry Insiders, Hides Every Move
In a practice surprising few, US President Donald Trump is packing his administration with corporate lobbyists and business insiders as he rolls back Obama-era US regulations designed to limit the effects of climate change, increase the strength of financial regulation and lower the level of wartime activities. Seen to be acting to affect regulations within the spheres of those same agencies they formerly sought to sway, Trump's business-insider team, including many former lobbyists, is quickly moving to blur the line between public government and private enterprise, according to Common Dreams. As reported by the New York Times, Trump has been going all-out to weaken ethics rules within the US government, as former lobbyists now working within his administration seek to modify the laws they sought only recently to change. By scouring financial disclosures provided by ranking White House staff members, the Times documented over 300 instances of corporate collusion, including the hiring