Best of 2017: Ten Stories of Money and Politics
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By Staff, The Center for Responsive Politics
A billionaire president surrounded by the wealthiest cabinet in modern history. Special elections that shattered records for campaign spending. A foreign government spending millions on Facebook ads to influence an election.
Keeping pace with the news cycle in 2017 was not easy -- but fear not.
For your holiday reading the OpenSecrets blog team has put together some of our favorite stories from this very memorable year in politics.
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