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### The White House Science Office
A March 2022 Politico investigation reported that Schmidt Futures had paid the salaries of staff working inside the White House [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] under its director [[Eric Lander]]. Its chief innovation officer [[Tom Kalil]] stayed on the Schmidt Futures payroll for four months while serving ostensibly as an unpaid consultant at the office, and the venture indirectly covered the salary of the office's chief of staff Marc Aidinoff for roughly six weeks. The office's general counsel Rachel Wallace raised significant ethical concerns about the arrangement given Schmidt's financial interests overlapping the office's portfolio.[^5][^6]
A March 2022 Politico investigation reported that Schmidt Futures had paid the salaries of staff working inside the [[White House]] [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] under its director [[Eric Lander]]. Its chief innovation officer [[Tom Kalil]] stayed on the Schmidt Futures payroll for four months while serving ostensibly as an unpaid consultant at the office, and the venture indirectly covered the salary of the office's chief of staff Marc Aidinoff for roughly six weeks. The office's general counsel Rachel Wallace raised significant ethical concerns about the arrangement given Schmidt's financial interests overlapping the office's portfolio.[^5][^6]
Subsequent reporting, including by the [[Tech Transparency Project]], described a broader pattern in which Schmidt Futures money reached more than twenty science-policy positions across the [[Joe Biden]] administration, in part by routing fellows through outside groups such as the Federation of American Scientists and into agencies including the Department of Energy. Eric Schmidt called the original salary report "largely false." Senators including Chuck Grassley wrote to the science office and the General Services Administration seeking records on the personnel arrangements.[^5][^6]