HeyJaredRep. Mike Levin
Proud husband/dad, SoCal native, clean energy advocate, environmental attorney, Stanford/Duke alum. U.S. Representative for CA-49. Official Substack.
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Corruption Watch #10: The Don Jr. Special, A Republican Wants Answers, A $620 Million Pentagon Loan & Billions in Business Deals (opens the original)
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What happens when the President’s family has financial interests in companies seeking billions of dollars in federal funding, government contracts, and favorable regulatory decisions? And what happens when a Republican senator starts asking the same questions Democrats have been asking about the Trump family’s business dealings? Those questions are at the center of this week’s Corruption Watch. In this tenth edition: Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah is calling for an investigation into whe
The FDA Says Flavored Vapes Put Kids at Risk. Then It Authorized Them Anyway. (opens the original)
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I know what cigarettes can do to a family. Three of my grandparents died of cancer or other respiratory ailments after decades of smoking. Those losses shape the work I do in Congress to spare other families the same grief. So I do not raise this lightly.In March, the Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance acknowledging the serious risks flavored e-cigarettes pose to young people. The agency said flavored products can increase youth appeal, facilitate initiation and promote continued
Corruption Watch #9: A Russian Oligarch Bankrolls Don Jr.’s Wedding, Lewandowski’s Alleged DHS Side Hustle & Freedom 250’s Political Data Grab (opens the original)
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How much access can money buy when the people closest to the President refuse to draw a line between public power and private benefit?That question runs through every story in this week’s Corruption Watch.In this ninth edition:A Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebrations, including renting a private island and paying for the fireworks. Don Jr. and his wife have acknowledged the gift, but insist that Umar Kremlev is s
Corruption Watch #8: The Stock Market Presidency (opens the original)
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The President of the United States can move markets with a post.He can move them with a tariff, a trade decision, a government contract, a foreign policy announcement, or a single sentence about a company.The President owns millions of dollars of stock in those very companies affected by his decisions.President Donald Trump is personally invested in the very market he can move.The President is supposed to be the steward of the public interest. He is not supposed to be running a personal investme
Corruption Watch #7: A $900M Deal Tied to a Trump Donor, Threats to Demolish the Kennedy Center, & a Yosemite Land Grab. (opens the original)
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There is so much corruption coming out of this Administration that stories that should stop the country in its tracks are starting to disappear almost as quickly as they are reported.In this seventh edition:The Trump Administration agreed to pay an energy company $1.2 billion from a federal fund if it abandons offshore wind leases and invests in other energy projects. Roughly $900 million is expected to be used in a transaction benefiting a private equity firm run by a Mar-a-Lago patron who gave
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