Caroline Gaudet

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Seventeen companies whose CEOs signed the letter—Allianz, Ameriprise Financial, Boston Scientific, Cargill, CHS, Inc., ECMC Group, Ecolab, General Mills, Hormel, Land O’Lakes, Mayo Clinic, Medtronic, Securian Financial Group, Solventum, Target, UnitedHealth, and Xcel Energy—also reported lobbying directly on OBBBA in federal lobbying disclosures. Blue Cross and Blue Shield reported 52 separate lobbying reports about OBBBA; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota president and CEO Dana Erickson signed the letter. Many of these companies have employees at their headquarters who are leaving work to go out and legally observe or defend their neighbors from ICE enforcement. The muted response in the letter doesn’t match the anger of the workforce, even before you get to the prodigious lobbying resources wielded by these companies that helped to create the situation inside the state.