These Nonprofits and Businesses Are Making Millions From Detaining Immigrant Children
Dozens of nonprofit shelter groups and several for-profit companies have made enormous amounts of money from detaining and transporting migrant kids.
Page 102
Rep. Gottheimer Asks Regulators to Deregulate Banks He’s Invested In
At the behest of a big-bank trade group, Gottheimer rallied 16 of his fellow Democrats to join him in urging financial regulators to gut a provision of Dodd-Frank that protects insured depository institutions from risky trading.
Who Is Making Money From CBP in Your State?
U.S Customs and Border Protection has been detaining children in squalid conditions at the border. See which companies sell their goods and services to the agency and where they’re headquartered.
Burning Man's 'Radical Inclusion' Makes Room for Weapons Lobbyists
One of Burning Man’s new lobbyists is a former Trump campaign staffer who organized efforts to defend Trump’s Muslim ban.
GEO Group Donated to the Trump-Tied Turning Point USA, Then Got Rave Review
TPUSA’s communications director visited a GEO Group detention facility and called it nicer than public schools she’d attended.
Leader of Centrist Climate Caucus Has Millions Invested in Oil and Gas Companies
Rep. Rooney, who is reviving the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, favors a carbon tax plan that mirrors a proposal put forth by the fossil fuel industry.
A Lobbyist Raising Money for Biden Is Fighting Measures to Crack Down on Foreign Election Influence
Ken Jarin, who is raising money for Biden's campaign, leads Ballard Spahr’s government affairs operation, which lobbies for subsidiaries of foreign companies opposing efforts to improve lobbying transparency and prevent foreign election influence.
To Reassert Its Lost Power, Congress Must Join the 21st Century
An obscure congressional committee may help make Congress relevant again.
These Corporations and Public Charities Funded the State Abortion Bans
A Sludge investigation has uncovered the sources of millions of dollars behind advocacy efforts to pass a slew of state abortion bans this year.