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>businessinsider.com/bidens-first-year-of-foreign-policy-hard-choices-ahead-2022-1
pffft foreign policy…. he can't even keep the shelves stocked in USA
Biden-tied lobbying firms raked in the dough during his first year
Shops that employed former aides to the current president saw massive increases in clients and fees in 2021.

Lobbying disclosures that a phalanx of former Biden Senate aides and lobbyists with ties to the Biden administration have experienced a significant surge of revenues. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
01/21/2022 06:26 PM EST
Washington’s top lobbying firms reported record lobbying revenues in 2021, and perhaps no one benefited more than lobbying shops with ties to President Joe Biden and his administration.
At Putala Strategies, a firm run by Chris Putala, a former aide to Biden from his time on the Senate Judiciary Committee, annual lobbying revenues soared from $1.3 million in 2020 to $4 million in 2021 — an increase of more than 200 percent — according to a review of lobbying disclosures.
Putala signed more than a dozen new clients in 2021, including the powerful drug lobby the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America and the company behind the KeystoneXL pipeline, both of which were fighting unfavorable policy proposals from Biden. That’s nearly as many as the one-man firm signed in the entire decade prior. (Putala signed no new clients between 2016 and 2020, when his former boss was no longer in office, according to lobbying disclosures.)
Lobbying disclosures show that throughout the year, Putala lobbied the White House or the Executive Office of the President on behalf of several prominent corporate clients including T-Mobile and Comcast. Putala also lobbied the White House on behalf of several tech trade associations, the Entertainment Software Association and the NCTA — The Internet & Television Association, as well as the U.S. subsidiary of the Dutch chipmaker ASML. Putala did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of top Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti, saw lobbying revenues continue to climb for his firm Ricchetti Inc., a trend that began in 2020 when Biden became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Ricchetti’s firm brought in $3.2 million in lobbying fees in 2021
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>politico.com/news/2022/01/21/its-a-gold-rush-for-lobbying-firms-with-biden-ties-527635