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What Makes Mitch A Swamp Turtle?
The Courier-Journal
Mitch McConnell has close ties to the US Postal Service board chairman, who is under fire for cutting funding to the postal service during a pandemic
“The chairman of the embattled U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors, set to testify Monday before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, is a Kentuckian and friend of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He’s likely to get tough questions from lawmakers about recent cost-cutting and operational changes to the agency.”
Open Secrets
COVID Lobbying: How former aides to Trump, congressional leaders lobbied their bosses amid the pandemic
Mitch McConnell is D.C. big money lobbyists’ favorite senator-for-sale. In fact, a lot of them used to be his staffers—but now he works for them. Corporations and trade groups know the best way to make sure their interests come first during the COVID-19 pandemic—149 of them have hired Mitch’s former aides as lobbyists to get what they want from the Senate in relief packages.
Open Secrets
59 Current Or Former McConnell Staffers Were Lobbyists Either Before Or After Working In His Office
The “revolving door” between McConnell’s former staffers and the lobbying industry allows lobbyists to use their connections to influence legislation to favor their special interest and corporate bosses.
