Facebook, Google and others are focusing some DC lobbying dollars on fighting President Trump

Large tech companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft focused some of their lobbying dollars in Washington over the past three months on combating President Donald Trump, as he eyed major changes to the US tax code and imposed new restrictions on foreign immigrants. Both issues feature prominently on many companies’ first-quarter lobbying reports. In total, five of the industry’s biggest names — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — spent a combined $13.3 million to influence regulators in the nation’s capital between Jan. 1 and March 31, records show.

Facebook specifically revealed it devoted a portion of its $3.2 million in spending during that period to fighting President Trump’s executive order limiting travelers and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries. The social giant, like many in Silicon Valley, has blasted the order publicly and signed onto legal briefs challenging the administration’s actions. Google, too, spent some of its $3.5 million in lobbying on “legislative responses” to Trump’s travel ban.