Because Trump did put out an executive order that said that people can't lobby for that. Unfortunately, a little bit after that, it came out that he was just giving people secret waivers. Oh, what a surprise! He was giving lobbyists in his campaign secret waivers. Oh, it doesn't matter. Who cares? Who cares? No, no. Well, he promised that he would cut da like when he was campaigning. That was the one thing where you could not argue that. Sure, special interest. Get rid of the money. Yeah, the whole idea of saying, I'm going to get rid of lobbyists is a good idea. Yep. One that should be done. Totally. And it seems like it has not been done even in the slightest. It is not. I am going to read to you from this New York Times article. The federal government's top ethics officer is challenging the Trump campaign's issuance of secret waivers that allow former lobbyists to handle matters they recently worked on, setting up a confrontation between the ethics office and President Trump. The move by Walter M. Schaub Jr., the director of the Office of Governmental Ethics, is the latest sign of rising tension between Mr. Schaub and the Trump White House. Mr. Schaub has tried several times to use his limited powers to force Mr. Trump to broadly honor federal ethics rules as well as the ethics order that Mr. Trump himself signed in late January. That's a bad start to the article. That is the largest uphill battle there ever has been. The ethics office is trying to force the least ethical administration in any of our lifetimes to observe ethical norms. And their own ethical standards. Yeah, no. Just do what you said. Not even close. No. Constitutionally, he's already violated the Emoluments Clause 10 million times. He should have been out of office on day one. Totally. The most recent request came late Friday when Mr. Schaub asked every executive branch agency, including the White House, to give him, by June 1st, a copy of any waivers issued to political employees, allowing them to ignore any part of the executive branch's ethics policy, saying in his letter that he was, quote, advancing the mission of the executive branch ethics program. Such waivers are typically issued when the administration wants to allow a new political employee to work on an issue like federal housing or environmental policy that involves people the new employee may have worked with previously. For example, Ernest J. Morins, the energy secretary in the Obama administration, was allowed to work on matters that involved General Electric, even though Mr. Moniz, as a nuclear physicist, had served on a general electric advisory board. About 70 such waivers were issued during the Obama administration. Mr. Trump, in his ethics order, made several fundamental changes in this process, some of which Mr. Schaub is challenging. First, Mr. Trump eliminated a prohibition imposed by Barack Obama in 2009 on the hiring of staff members who in the previous two years had lobbied the agency they now wanted to work for. Ah. Former lobbyists seeking jobs in Mr. Trump's administration must get a waiver from the ethics rules if they want to work on matters that overlap with their lobbying assignments in the previous two years. But there's a but mister Trump has chosen to keep the waivers secret. He dropped a practice in place during the Obama administration that any waiver would be shared with the Office of Governmental Ethics and posted on the White House website or the Ethics Office website or on both. The combined result, eliminating the ban on hiring former lobbyists and keeping secret any waivers granted to new hires means the public has no way of knowing if Mr. Trump's staff are complying with the rules.