A former Biden budget lawyer exploited a legal loophole to shield the leftist machine—and now he’s cashing in while fighting Trump’s efforts to drain the Swamp.
The swamp creatures are fighting back against Donald Trump with everything they’ve got.
One Biden administration insider went to incredible lengths trying to protect the leftist machine.
Now this Biden lawyer was just exposed in one sabotage that has Donald Trump seeing red.
Biden’s budget lawyer built the perfect scam before heading for the exit
Daniel Jacobson knew exactly what he was doing when he worked as general counsel for Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget.
While most Americans were struggling with inflation and higher costs, Jacobson was busy rigging the system to protect billions in taxpayer dollars flowing to left-wing groups.
Just months before Biden left office, Jacobson helped push through changes to something called the Uniform Grants Guidance in October 2024.
The changes made it much harder for the government to terminate grants that "no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities," as Holland & Knight law firm explained.
In other words, Jacobson bulletproofed Biden’s parting gifts to the Left.
The timing wasn’t a coincidence.
Jacobson left his government job in January and immediately launched his own law firm called Jacobson Lawyers Group in March.
His new company promises to offer "a full suite of services to entities impacted by the Administration’s funding actions."
Translation: Jacobson is getting rich helping liberal groups keep their taxpayer-funded gravy train rolling.
The ultimate revolving door scheme
Jacobson’s law firm website brags that "From his time as General Counsel at OMB, Dan has insights that few private practitioners can offer in this space, paired with a track record of litigation success."
Of course he does.
He literally wrote the rules that are now tying Trump’s hands.
The ethics problems don’t stop there.
Jacobson packed his new firm with other Biden administration alumni who are all cashing in on their government connections.
Lynn Eisenberg was the principal deputy general counsel for the Department of Education.
Robin Runge served on the Department of Labor’s transition team.
Nina Cahill worked in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Legal Division.
John Robinson and Kyla Snow both came from Biden’s Department of Justice.
Snow actually defended the Biden administration’s efforts to censor free speech in the Missouri v. Biden case.
Robinson defended racist college admission policies and Biden’s unconstitutional eviction moratorium.
Now they’re all working together to stop Trump from draining the swamp.
Fighting Trump from every angle
Jacobson isn’t wasting any time putting his insider knowledge to work against the Trump administration.
He’s involved in at least five different lawsuits trying to force Trump to keep sending taxpayer money to left-wing causes.
One case involves $20 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
The EPA had to refer this program to its inspector general in March for potential mismanagement.
The Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported that the program "directed millions in tax dollars to several organizations filled with Democrat donors and deep political connections to the party."
Jacobson filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council to support the Climate United Fund’s lawsuit against the EPA.
The lawsuit claims the EPA made a "de facto suspension" of a grant awarded in 2024 by taking "behind-the-scenes efforts to cause Citibank to withhold" funds in an account.
He’s also suing Trump’s Office of Management and Budget directly for shutting down a website that made government spending public.
OMB Director Russ Vought said keeping the information secret was necessary to protect "sensitive, predecisional, and deliberative information" that could "pose a danger to national security and foreign policy."
But Jacobson wants to force the Trump administration to keep broadcasting where every taxpayer dollar goes.
In another lawsuit, Jacobson is fighting to restore frozen funding to groups like the American Bar Association through USAID.
His lawsuit argues that "Neither the President nor his subordinates have authority to thwart duly enacted statutes and substitute their own funding preferences for those that Congress has enacted through legislation."
He filed another brief supporting organizations that lost grants for pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
And he’s representing Child Trends in a lawsuit against Health and Human Services for canceling grants, including funding for research focused on Hispanic children and families with low incomes.
Ethics experts raise red flags
Government watchdog groups are asking serious questions about Jacobson’s scheme.
Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Jacobson’s involvement "raises many questions."
He noted that former government lawyers have "obligations regarding what legal matters they can work on after leaving government service, under both federal ethics law and under professional rules of conduct, particularly as those rules have been adopted by the DC Bar, where Mr. Jacobson is a member."
"If a government lawyer were to learn client confidences or secrets during his representation of an agency and use such information in litigation against that very same agency, it could very well implicate these ethics obligations," Chamberlain said. "Although it’s not clear that has happened here, on the face of it, the situation raises many questions."
Federal law prohibits former officials from trying to influence the government on matters where they "participated personally and substantially as such officer or employee."
The question is whether Jacobson is crossing that line by using his insider knowledge to fight the very agency he used to work for.
Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, explained the legal issues to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
"This applies to particular party matters such as particular grants, contacts, etc. by the government, but not to general policy and regulations," Painter said. "So the question is what particular grants, contracts etc, did he participate in while at OMB? Is he representing back to the government in any of those matters, which is illegal, or is he representing back to the government in separate particular party matters or on interpretations of statutes and regulations, which is legal. Grants guidance applicable to all or most grant recipients would fall in the latter category, but guidance on a particular grant would fall in the former category."
Either way, Jacobson’s revolving door operation shows exactly why Americans are fed up with the Washington swamp.
He spent years in government rigging the system to protect liberal spending, then immediately cashed in by helping the same groups he was supposed to oversee.
It’s the perfect example of how the deep state protects itself and fights back against any attempt at reform.
Trump promised to drain the swamp, but the swamp creatures like Jacobson are fighting back with everything they’ve got.
The American people deserve better than having their tax dollars used to enrich the very people who are working to undermine their elected President.
