President Donald Trump had implemented the policy by executive order at the start of his presidency.
Shortly after he entered office, Trump signed an executive order that barred appointees from any lobbying related to their agency for five years, in addition to a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
When Trump signed his executive order with great fanfare in 2017, he joked that some of his aides would “not be able to go to work†after leaving his administration
The White House did not offer any justification for the reversal in the executive order released to the public
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