Rubio raked in millions from Big Oil, Pharma and Crypto PACs, and did their bidding in the U.S. Senate. He also voted to cut taxes for big corporations and opposed making Medicare negotiate lower drug prices.

Though his 2016 presidential campaign denied it, The Washington Post reported Rubio was a registered lobbyist from 2003 to 2005. Despite his campaign’s claims, Rubio’s biography on the law firm’s website stated that he represented local governments before Congress as well as local clients in Florida on contracts and “affordable housing land use issues.”

• Rubio was also accused of operating as a lobbyist between 1997 and 2005. A spokesperson later claimed that during that period, Rubio was not operating as an actual lobbyist or meeting with “elected officials to influence them on behalf of clients,” but had merely been a lawyer registered as a lobbyist to work on “land use contracts and RFPs.”
  

Rubio has reimbursed himself and his family tens of thousands of dollars through conservative PACs, including $150,000 for “office/operating” costs, $50,000 in credit card charges, and thousands more in “consultancy fees.” 

• In the same period, of the $1.5 million spent by Rubio’s Reclaim America PAC, only $68,427 went to supporting other candidates while $447,370 went to paying consultants.