Business elites lose a battle

[David Horn]

(08-22-2017, 02:29 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(08-16-2017, 08:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: In reactions to issues with little business impact, enough big businesses have left Trump's advisory councils that they are being disbanded.

To me, this is excellent news as the big businesses have just voluntarily given up their most important channel for influencing the administration.  It's just one battle, but in the war between the elites and the people, it's a battle lost by the elites.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/346827...defections

No their main channel for influence is still open.  Policy is developed by the various departments, in which business still has plenty of say. The point of the council was to discuss legislation the president might push. This president doesn't do that, so there is no point in having a council.  Besides, few still think Congress is going to pass anything by the end of the year and then the election will shut everything down. After the election the GOP won't have sufficient-sized majorities to pass anything w/o Democratic votes and that will be that. Trump probably isn't going to run again, so it seems over.

Just to amplify on the importance of the executive departments to the business community: look who's running things.  The EPA under Scott Pruitt can impact the bottom like of almost every large and most mid-sized businesses in the US.  Interior is handing out contracts for mineral and energy projects like candy on Halloween.  Commerce and Labor will guarantee that the money goes where the oligarchs want it go, and Justice will kill any anti-trust or other legal cases in their infancy.

And that's just a quick skim.  A deep dive would reveal much more.