Danny and Derek welcome Eli Clifton, senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and Investigative-Journalist-at-Large at Responsible Statecraft, for a discussion on Beltway think tanks. They talk about the recent kerfuffle at Brookings Institution, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, dark money, the influence of think tanks on legislation, and much more.
Foreign dollars for think tanks? Sounds like a colonial relationship...
Another thing that really burned me was I believe in the giant COVID bailouts there was included a not insignificant sum to bail out DC lobbyists (which I assume includes some think tanks).
E50 - Thorny Think Tanks w/ Eli Clifton
The cutting of Congress' own research facilities was chiefly done under Newt "Moon Base" Gingrich when he became Speaker, from what I recall.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2014/06/09/the-big-lobotomy/
Washington Monthly did a really good article on it back in 2014.
Foreign dollars for think tanks? Sounds like a colonial relationship...
Another thing that really burned me was I believe in the giant COVID bailouts there was included a not insignificant sum to bail out DC lobbyists (which I assume includes some think tanks).