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.
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).
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).