Fact Check: Trump Says He's Begun to 'Drain the Swamp' With Lobbying Ban. That's True.
“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a 5-year ban on lobbying by Executive Branch Officials, and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government," President Trump said.
The Facts: True. Trump enacted this change by executive order on the eighth day of his presidency. But he also made it easier for former lobbyists to join the executive branch if they deregistered, revoking a 2009 order blocking individuals who had worked as a lobbyist in the previous year from taking administration jobs.
