‘We know what is coming’: Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election

Thousands of federal bureaucrats have lived through one Donald Trump administration. Many are not sure they can or will survive a second. POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen civil servants, political appointees under President Joe Biden and recently departed Biden administration staffers in the days since the presidential election was called for Trump, who…

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AI startups ramp up federal lobbying efforts

AI lobbying at the U.S. federal level is intensifying in the midst of a continued generative AI boom and an election year that could influence future AI regulation. New data from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit group that tracks and publishes metrics on campaign financing and lobbying, shows that the number of groups lobbying the federal government…

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