Biden is Letting Think Tanks
Op-Ed
May 12, 2023

Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again

One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.

At some point over the past few years, the Biden administration revoked one of the few progressive policies that Trump-era officials implemented in the effort to bring greater transparency to foreign influence in Washington. The New Republic has learned that with little fanfare, and with even less explanation, the White House has stopped requesting that American think tanks disclose funding from foreign governments. “This is not the policy of the U.S. State Department,” an agency spokesperson said last month.

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