Caitlin Oprysko

Washington, D.C.

Influence Reporter at POLITICO

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Trump's return sparks a K Street gold rush

1 day ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

Lobbying revenues were up nearly across the board during the first three months of 2025, with a handful of firms cashing in on their ties to the president and his inner circle. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he arrives at the White House after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Washington.
Trump-linked firms cash in

1 day ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

With Daniel Lippman Here are your Lobbying Disclosure Act revenue rankings for the first quarter of 2025.
Ballard’s big Q1 haul

2 days ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

With Daniel Lippman, Josh Gerstein RAKING IT IN: Numbers are still rolling in ahead of tonight’s filing deadline for first quarter lobbying reports, but there’s one eye-popping number that demonstrates where the power lies on K Street in Donald Trump’s Washington before more broadly diving into the revenue rankings tomorrow.
Trump-connected lobbying firm Ballard Partners rakes in $14M in first quarter

3 days ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

The firm more than tripled its revenue from a year ago. Longtime Florida lobbyist Brian Ballard set up a Washington office for his firm not long after Donald Trump’s first White House victory in 2017. | M.
Higher ed gold rush on K Street continues

5 days ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

With Daniel Lippman A DIFFERENT KIND OF MARCH MADNESS: Lobbying firms have continued to hoover up new business from colleges and universities in the lead-up to this week’s escalation of President Donald Trump‘s war with higher education. Newly filed disclosures show Purdue University hired Bose Public Affairs Group and Barnes & Thornburg at the beginning of March to lobby on issues including appropriations, science and technology and defense policy.
More new tariff lobbying

6 days ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

With Daniel Lippman, Grace Yarrow EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to a publishing error, yesterday’s POLITICO Influence was published this morning. We apologize for the inconvenience. You can read yesterday’s edition here.
The Chamber, gemstone dealers and Quince add trade lobbying help

1 week ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

Editor’s Note: Due to a publishing error, yesterday’s POLITICO influence was published this morning. We apologize for the inconvenience. With Daniel Lippman and Declan HartyNEW BUSINESS: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has hired a new outside firm. The business group this month retained HB Strategies to lobby on tax, trade and manufacturing issues, according to a disclosure filing. Stacy McBride and Richard Eddings — both former top aides to ex-Sen.
How K Street is schooling universities on Trump

1 week ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

With help from Daniel LippmanGETTING SCHOOLED: President Donald Trump swept into power earlier this year and almost immediately began using his bully pulpit — and the federal government’s leverage, in the form of massive amounts of funding for contracts and grants — to embark on an unprecedented pressure campaign seeking to bend some of the country’s oldest and most revered universities to his will.
‘A multi-front war’: How a lobbying heavyweight is advising universities to handle the Trump administration

1 week ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

In response to the demand from schools, one of Washington’s top-earning law and lobbying firms, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, has launched a new higher education task force to advise universities on how to navigate the whims of the Trump administration. The firm’s clients include Yale University, DePaul University, Davidson College, the Baylor College of Medicine, Colorado State University and Washington University in St. Louis, among others.
More institutions under fire add Trump-tied firms

1 week ago | politico.com | Caitlin Oprysko

With help from Daniel LippmanBIG LAW LOBBIES UP: Three of the Big Law firms that recently brokered deals with the White House to avoid retaliation for a litany of perceived slights to President Donald Trump or his allies did so after enlisting the help of lobbyists close to the president, according to disclosures filed over the weekend.