Amazon has assembled the biggest lobbying team of any technology company in Washington as it expands into new lines of businesses and faces a barrage of attacks from President Donald Trump.
The online retailer has doubled its number of in-house lobbyists from 14 to 28 since Mr Trump’s victory, giving it greater firepower than Google’s 13-person operation and more than Facebook and Apple, which each have 8 in-house lobbyists, according to data compiled by the Financial Times.
The Washington expansion comes as Mr Trump has put the company in his personal cross-hairs, firing off critical tweets accusing it of receiving concessionary rates from the US Postal Service and avoiding tax.