Ethics watchdogs: Why won’t Trump’s pick for Air Force secretary account for her contractor work? By Patrick Malone March 29, 2017 Trump pick for Air Force boss frustrated auditors with lucrative, murky consulting for nuclear weapons labs By Patrick Malone and R. Jeffrey Smith February 28, 2017 President Trump’s Air Force Secretary nominee, Heather Wilson, […]
Category: The Gift Economy
The top defense contractors in Washington regularly finance the election campaigns of the lawmakers who oversee or control their budgets. Political analysts have called this phenomenon “the gift economy,” in which each routinely gets — and expects — something of value from the other. The Center investigated this financial relationship and its large influence on the government’s policymaking and expenditures related to national security.
