Author: Robert Schmad

Mississippi and Connecticut retain investment advisers friendly to Chinese military-linked holdings to manage international assets in their public pension funds, public records show. The exact holdings of public pension funds are not always disclosed. In the case of Mississippi, for instance, its public pension fund only lists its top 10 foreign and domestic holdings in…

Saudi Arabia is spending millions of dollars each month paying its foreign agents to interface with members of the media and lawmakers to secure influence in Washington, enjoying considerable success in doing so, a Washington Examiner review of public records has found. From private sit-downs with members of Congress and their senior staff to op-eds…

Five elite universities that have publicly criticized President Donald Trump are paying top-tier MAGA-friendly lobbyists to butter up the White House privately, federal lobbying disclosures show. ​Johns Hopkins University, ​Cornell University, ​Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University have all entered into lobbying contracts with Ballard Partners or Miller Strategies, two firms with…

On Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee invited Microsoft President Brad Smith to discuss ways the United States could “beat China in the [artificial intelligence] race.” Microsoft, however, has a history of partnering with Pentagon-designated “Chinese military companies,” training talent that eventually filters into pro-Chinese Communist Party enterprises, engaging in censorship on behalf of Beijing, and…

White House adviser Elon Musk, two major U.S. banks, and a major law firm have all maintained or strengthened business relationships with a Chinese battery manufacturer that Defense Department officials believe is a participant in the Chinese Communist Party’s military-industrial complex and that analysts have flagged for patent irregularities. Those relationships have continued against the…

In October 2024, a right-of-center watchdog organization called Americans for Public Trust released a bombshell report claiming that foreigners may have dumped tens of millions of dollars into ballot initiative campaigns ahead of November’s election. Since then, a coalition of right-of-center advocacy groups has worked with grassroots activists and state legislators to block foreign entities…

At least eight American firms disclosed lobbying agreements with companies fully or partially owned by Chinese entities between March and April, a significant uptick from prior months, as President Donald Trump escalated a trade war with China, according to a Washington Examiner review of congressional and Department of Justice records.  The China-linked entities identified by…

EXCLUSIVE — Following a Washington Examiner report, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into the Biden administration’s partnership with a Chinese Communist Party-linked nonprofit organization that helped manage land adjacent to military sites, according to a letter sent to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday.  The investigation came after the Washington Examiner found that…

When Harvard University made headlines for refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s proposed terms for federal grant funding, it explained its decision was based on its “independence” and stressed its commitment to “broaden[ing] the intellectual and viewpoint diversity” at the institution. While Harvard pays lip service to ideological diversity, the university is overwhelmingly led…

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) left some people scratching their heads on Thursday after he provided an impassioned defense for the Islamic nation of Qatar during a congressional hearing. A Washington Examiner review of Foreign Agents Registration Act records found that the arguments Marshall made to defend Qatar matched talking points provided to his office by…