Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole is
currently a lobbyist. According to the NYTIMES:
“The former senator
turned lobbyist helped establish the high-level contacts that led to the call
between Donald J. Trump and the president of Taiwan. Mr. Dole’s firm received
$140,000 from May to October for the work on behalf of Taiwan”
Meanwhile, Washington Post reports:
“The Pentagon has
buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in
its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse
to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos
obtained by The Washington Post.
Pentagon leaders
had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy
more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project
documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials
moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.”