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Ex-Palantir & CVS lobbyist moves to Sen. Minority Whip

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 21, 2023

Fresh from Palantir Technologies's government-affairs team, a lobbyist has returned to Senate Republicans.

Sarah Schmidt is now health-policy director to Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.). She was most recently a vice president and head of government affairs at Palantir, the big-data-analytics giant co-founded by Peter Thiel. She briefly registered as a Palantir lobbyist working on health-care and government issues.

Schmidt previously worked as a lobbyist and senior director at Aetna and CVS Health. Before leaving for the private sector, she handled health-care portfolios for Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and then-Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).