Earmark lobbyist Bob Livingston endorses Donald Trump

Published March 28, 2016 3:50pm ET



Former Congressman Bob Livingston has endorsed Donald Trump for president.

Livingston, who was appropriations committee chairman in the 1990s, and almost the speaker of the House, is now a big-deal corporate lobbyist on K Street. Largely, he’s an earmark lobbyist. “[W]orking to influence the federal budget process reigns supreme” at the Livingston Group, The Hill reports. Livingston has inveighed against the Republicans’ earmark ban in The Wall Street Journal and in Esquire.

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