Public Citizen

Former Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn talks on the phone as he waits for the start of a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has met with at least 190 corporate executives, not including phone calls with heads of banks or his numerous Wall Street appointees, the watchdog group Public Citizen reported Monday in a new analysis.

PREFACE: The three biggest campaign contributions from individuals-- all to SuperPACs-- were for $15 million (the Wilks brothers), $11 million (Robert Mercer) and $10 million (Tony Neugebauer) dollars and all went to anti-democracy fanatic Ted Cruz. So...

Well, the regular working families are the ones who take it in the neck, of course. Republicans grudgingly prepared to not shut down the government by bragging to their extremist fringe that they would still enforce plenty of pain on the poor people their party is perpetually at war with.

Peter B. Collins Presents Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen