‘Revolving door’ may allow Biden admin’s top officials to exert influence over agencies they led
- December 7, 2024
Kevin Killough, Just the News
A senior official in the Biden-Harris administration whose ties to environmental extremist groups drew scrutiny during her Senate confirmation hearings was selected to lead the anti-fossil fuel nonprofit The Wilderness Society when she leaves her current post. The non-profit’s PAC has donated more than $50,000 to many progressive candidates, including Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Bob Casey. D-Pa., and Kamala Harris, according to public records.
Tracy Stone-Manning, director of the Bureau of Land Management, will assume the position of president with the nonprofit in February, according to the Associated Press. The news raises the possibility that other figures in the current administration may find new homes with influential environmental groups that worked closely with federal agencies under the Biden-Harris administration.
The ethically questionable, and sometimes illegal, movement of employees between federal agencies and nonprofits and companies that have either lobbied those agencies or been overseen by them is what’s often referred to as the “revolving door” of government.
Michael Chamberlain, director of government watchdog nonprofit Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), told Just the News that despite the Biden-Harris administration’s claims that it acted with a high degree of ethics and transparency, top officials acted completely contrary to these promises.
“The revolving door is spinning faster than ever. People who came from powerful special interest groups into the administration are now leaving the administration to go to powerful special interest groups,” Chamberlain said.