特朗普总统新任幕僚长斯蒂芬·米勒的办公室概述了一项新政策，旨在展示与特殊利益集团的独立性。
The office of Stephen Miller, President Trump’s new chief of staff, outlined a new policy that seeks to show independence from special interests.
特朗普总统新任白宫幕僚长毫不拖延地试图将自己与前任划清界限。
President Trump’s new White House chief of staff is wasting little time trying to differentiate himself from his predecessor.
据一位收到备忘录但无权披露的人士透露，长期担任特朗普助手、在苏西·怀尔斯被解职后于上周晋升为幕僚长的斯蒂芬·米勒办公室发布了一份备忘录，禁止白宫工作人员在未经事先批准的情况下，在白宫内与游说人士会面讨论政策问题。
The office of Stephen Miller, a longtime Trump aide who was elevated to chief of staff last week after Susie Wiles was ousted, issued a memo forbidding White House staff from meeting with lobbyists about policy issues on the building’s grounds without prior approval, according to a person who received the memo and was not authorized to disclose it.
备忘录写道：“历史上没有任何一位总统比特朗普总统更坚持不懈、更无私、更勇敢地为美国人民而战。遵循他的榜样，白宫工作人员应坚定不移地将时间奉献给国家的劳动人民。”白宫周四晚间未回应关于该备忘录及其出台原因的提问。
“No President in history has fought more relentlessly, selflessly or courageously for the American People than President Trump,” reads the memo. “Following his example, White House staff are expected to dedicate their time unwaveringly to the working people of the nation.”
该备忘录于周四由一位与特朗普结盟的播客主在社交媒体上发布，并被《政治报》报道。此前上周，一位前特朗普政府高级健康顾问指责白宫迎合游说人士及其客户，后者为总统的政治团体和项目筹集了大量资金。
The White House did not respond to questions on Thursday night about the memo and what prompted it. The memo, which was posted on social media by a podcaster allied with Mr. Trump on Thursday and also reported by Politico, follows claims last week by a former top Trump administration health adviser who accused the White House of catering to lobbyists and their clients who had raised significant funds for the president’s political groups and projects.
“让美国再次健康”运动的知名人物卡利·米恩斯将矛头指向了怀尔斯女士。
Calley Means, a prominent figure in the Make America Healthy Again movement, blamed Ms. Wiles.
上月刚从卫生与公众服务部辞职的米恩斯先生主张，怀尔斯女士使政府健康政策倾向于聘请了关系深厚的游说人士的企业捐赠者，而非普通美国人。
Mr. Means, who resigned last month from the Department of Health and Human Services, contended that Ms. Wiles tilted administration health policy to favor corporate donors who hired well-connected lobbyists over ordinary Americans.
他特别点名了鲍拉德合伙公司——怀尔斯女士曾在此任职的游说公司，以及怀尔斯女士的女儿凯蒂·怀尔斯，她是游说公司大陆战略的合伙人。
He specifically cited Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm where Ms. Wiles once worked, and Ms. Wiles’s daughter, Katie Wiles, who is a partner at the lobbying firm Continental Strategy.
“所以，如果你是一个特殊利益集团，想要办成某件事，秘密已经揭开了，”米恩斯在《乔·罗根体验》播客的一次采访中表示。“你付钱给苏茜的女儿，当他们有客户时，这事公开讨论过。”白宫对这些说法予以反驳，并表示凯蒂·怀尔斯没有与她母亲讨论过她的生意。
“So if you’re a special interest and you want to get something done, the secret’s out,” Mr. Means said during an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “You pay Susie’s daughter, and it was openly discussed when they had a client.”The White House pushed back on the claims and has said that Katie Wiles did not discuss her business with her mother.
大陆战略公司表示，凯蒂·怀尔斯不代表任何客户向美国政府游说。周四晚间，苏茜·怀尔斯没有回应置评请求。
Continental Strategy has said that Katie Wiles does not lobby the U.S. government on behalf of any clients. Susie Wiles did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday night.
周四晚间，巴拉德合伙人公司及其创始人布莱恩·巴拉德没有立即回应置评请求。
Ballard Partners and its founder, Brian Ballard, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday night.
但巴拉德在周日于社交媒体上发布的一份声明中表示，他的公司与怀尔斯女士担任幕僚长期间的互动是“有限的，并且是例外，而非常规”。巴拉德曾帮助向特朗普支持的超级政治行动委员会、白宫舞厅项目以及其他特朗普青睐的项目捐款的客户促进与总统及其团队的接触。这些客户有时从行政部门政策的变化中获益。
But in a statement posted on social media on Sunday, Mr. Ballard said his firm’s interactions with Ms. Wiles as chief of staff were “limited and have been the exception, not the rule.”Mr. Ballard has helped facilitate access to the president and his team for clients who have donated to the Trump-backed super PAC, the White House ballroom project and other projects favored by Mr. Trump. Those clients have sometimes benefited from changes in administration policy.
这与2016年大相径庭，当时特朗普以华盛顿局外人的身份参选，承诺“清除沼泽”。米勒在那次竞选期间开始为特朗普工作。
It is a far cry from 2016, when Mr. Trump ran as a Washington outsider promising to “drain the swamp.”Mr. Miller started working for Mr. Trump during that campaign.
发布该备忘录的播客主持人本尼·约翰逊称其是“与怀尔斯女士领导风格的显著背离”，并称“这是一场大规模整顿即将到来的信号”。该备忘录要求特朗普的工作人员在白宫综合体内与注册游说者会面前，须获得白宫法律顾问办公室的批准。
The podcaster who posted the memo, Benny Johnson, called it “a marked break” from Ms. Wiles’s leadership “and a signal that there is a massive crackdown coming.”The memo requires Mr. Trump’s staff to receive approval from the White House Counsel’s Office for meetings in the White House complex with registered lobbyists.
备忘录指示，工作人员应将游说者的询问转交给公共联络办公室，并称该办公室为“与外部利益相关者接触的主要联络点”。不过，备忘录仍为特殊利益集团留有回旋余地。游说者可以在特朗普经常光顾的白宫建筑群外场所与工作人员会面，例如他的海湖庄园和高尔夫俱乐部。而且许多企业高管与特朗普有直接关系，独立于他们的游说者之外。
Staff are asked to refer lobbyist inquiries to the Office of Public Liaison, the memo instructs, calling the office “the primary point of contact for engagement with external stakeholders.”The memo nonetheless leaves wiggle room for special interests. Lobbyists could meet staff at venues Mr. Trump frequents outside of the White House complex, like his Mar-a-Lago resort and golf clubs. And many corporate executives have direct relationships with Mr. Trump, independent of their lobbyists.
肯尼斯·P·沃格尔驻扎华盛顿，调查金钱、政治与影响力的交汇点。
Kenneth P. Vogel is based in Washington and investigates the intersection of money, politics and influence.