Corporate Influence Requires Time With Trump, Ex-Lawmaker Says

The best way for companies to engage with the Trump administration is to be proactive, a former congressman-turned-lobbyist said.

“Be prepared. Go to Washington, DC, before you have a problem,” said Frank Guinta, senior vice president at Mintz’s ML Strategies and a New Hampshire Republican who served in the US House from 2011-2013 and 2015-2017.

Corporate access to President Donald Trump’s second administration is unusual, Guinta said. Under other administrations, a company that wanted access to the White House would go through a staffer to talk through its issues. But now, he said, “the executive authority has been consolidated to ...