Big tax move. Elle Collins is leaving the House Ways and Means Committee to join IBM as the tech giant’s global tax policy leader.
Collins played a central part in crafting the One Big Beautiful Bill this year as a GOP tax counsel for the committee, focusing on energy and international tax provisions. That included a massive rollback of green tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act, which was one of the most politically challenging pieces of the law to put together.
Kyle Perel also recently exited the Ways and Means tax staff, where he worked on key pieces of the OBBB like tax cuts for tips and overtime and education-related policies. Perel is now a special adviser at the Treasury Department.
Big oversight move. Jake Greenberg, the chief GOP investigations counsel for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is moving over to DLA Piper to run the firm’s investigations practice.
Greenberg — who graduated from the University of Chicago Law School — has been with the Oversight Committee since March 2020. This included working on the impeachment probe against former President Joe Biden and the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. Greenberg also served a year-long stint on the House Judiciary Committee.
Downtown Download. Meta has hired Salinas Strategies to lobby on “[i]ssues and discussions related to AI, Antitrust, Homeland Security, Intellectual Property, Intelligence, Trade.” Norberto Salinas was the senior counsel on the House Judiciary Committee.
The Campaign. Fairness for Iowa, a coalition of progressive groups aimed at defeating Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), has a new ad up in Des Moines and Ames hitting Nunn on price increases due to tariffs.
American Advancement Inc. has a new ad up in Bangor, Maine, which says the key to advancing the MAGA agenda is extending the enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies. The spot asserts that if Congress extends the subsidies now, Trump can fix Obamacare in 2026.
