Get on it Joe! : How a strengthening gun violence prevention coalition pushed Biden to act
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)Yuri Gripas / TNS
WASHINGTON In the first two months of President Joe Biden’s administration, many of the nation’s most powerful gun violence prevention groups were dismayed with the leadership of the man they thought was going to be their strongest champion.
While they were receiving private meetings, they felt American gun deaths were placed on the back-burner by an administration single-mindedly pursing the COVID-19 pandemic. After multiple mass shootings and deaths in March, Alexis Confer, executive director of March for Our Lives, and Greg Jackson, national advocacy director at Community Justice Action Fund, flipped texts message back and forth saying “we’ve got to do something.”
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They re all massive companies that employ former staffers to President Joe Biden.
At least eight major corporations employ staffers who worked for Biden during his decades as a senator, vice president, and presidential candidate, according to an Insider analysis of staff lists, social media, and employment databases. The companies all have significant business before the federal government.
The diaspora of former Biden aides to powerful companies isn t surprising, given the president s long track record in Washington politics. Unlike President Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Biden spent decades in Washington before becoming president, and his new ethics pledge doesn t necessarily limit lobbying by his vast network of former aides who were close to him 10 or even 20 years ago.