The White House’s roster is starting to resemble Google’s list of former employees

Google’s expanding diaspora in Washington has sparked growing concerns about the company’s influence with government officials.

Just as the Treasury Department’s actions in 2008 had implications for Goldman Sachs, many of the questions before federal agencies and lawmakers today, from network neutrality rules to the potential for regulating drone deliveries and self-driving cars, could be significant to Google’s businesses. Some of the ex-Googlers hired by the White House already have returned to the private sector; that’s understandable -- not every recruit, especially those who left families behind in Silicon Valley, wants to make a lifelong commitment to Washington, or to the government’s pay scale -- but the revolving door action makes critics all the more skeptical about the relationships between companies and federal offices.