Potential Nominee For Head Of Office Of Management And Budget Could Be Coup For Walmart

Obama's Latest Nominee Could Be Big Win For Walmart
FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, the Wal-Mart logo is displayed in Springfield, Ill. The world's largest retailer is throwing its doors open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, two hours earlier than a year ago. It's also guaranteeing shoppers that it will have three of the most popular items it sells if they line up inside the store during a one-hour event that day. AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, the Wal-Mart logo is displayed in Springfield, Ill. The world's largest retailer is throwing its doors open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, two hours earlier than a year ago. It's also guaranteeing shoppers that it will have three of the most popular items it sells if they line up inside the store during a one-hour event that day. AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Recent reports suggest that President Obama is about to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the president of the Walmart Foundation, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Her nomination would be a coup for Walmart and its foundation, which under Burwell’s watch has wielded its massive budget to expand the retail giant’s influence at all levels of government and to pave the way for store expansions.

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