It's rare for a president to use the weight of the office to publicly support or oppose a bill that impacts a private sector venture.
House Democrats on Wednesday were forced to delay votes on a pair of relatively obscure tribal casino bills after President Donald Trump issued a surprise tweet urging Republicans to vote against one of the two bills.If passed, H.R. 312 would clear the way for a new casino to be built in Massachusetts on land belonging to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. A related piece of legislation, H.R.
Trump's tweet was also unusual because of the timing. Before the tweet on Wednesday, sent just hours before a vote in the full House, Trump had never spoken about the issue in public.About an hour before Trump sent his tweet, a top outside adviser to the White House and a friend of the president's, Matt Schlapp, tweeted a similar message, writing that the passage of H.R. 312 would be a"reward" for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
Schlapp is president of the American Conservative Union and a registered lobbyist with a firm called Cove Strategies, which lobbies on behalf of casino operator Twin Rivers Management Group. His wife, Mercedes Schlapp, is a senior White House communications aide. In January of this year, Twin Rivers Management hired Schlapp and Cove Strategies to lobby on"gaming issues." Schlapp did not respond to questions from CNBC Wednesday.
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