Bondi’s License To Shill

Today’s Lever Story (full article here): If those pharma coupon offers on TV seem too good to be true — that’s because they often are.

🎧 Coming up on Lever Time: Elon Musk lost a big court case this morning — click here to add Lever Time to your podcast app to get our episode about the case later today.

⬇️ Spend four minutes reading this 828-word newsletter to learn about:

• Early details of Musk’s big loss in federal court.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi’s new license to shill.
• Who’s funding a federal worker hit list.
• The Sierra Club’s crypto double-agent.
• Amazon and UnitedHealth’s inaugural demands.

🕵️ Bondi… Pam Bondi. In her first official act, foreign-agent-turned-Attorney-General Pam Bondi is disbanding the Justice Department’s Foreign Influence Task Force and limiting enforcement of statutes regulating foreign government lobbyists. Bondi was previously a registered lobbyist for Qatar as part of the country’s $115,000-per-month contract with her lobbying firm, Ballard Partners. That firm has also been registered to lobby for Japan, Guatemala, Congo, Liberia, and Sudan. 

🚫 Greenland bans Citizens United as Trump donors swarm. This week, Greenland’s government approved a bill that caps campaign donations and bans political spending by anonymous and foreign donors ahead of the country’s upcoming March elections. Greenland’s government said the reforms are a direct response to Trump’s threats to acquire the island. The Lever revealed details last week about powerful Trump donors with financial interests in Greenland’s local politics — and a U.S. takeover.