The geoeconomic power map in Washington DC had started to shift well before the movers began offloading Donald Trump’s belongings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on January 20. Prior presidencies favoured traditional economic power brokers. Joe Biden’s advisers hailed from within Washington’s elites and bread-and-butter economic sectors, such as healthcare, information and communications technologies, finance, real estate and insurance, and industrial unions. The Trump 2.0 team leans heavily on a handful of tech bros and has done so since the middle of the 2024 electoral campaign. The tech bros represent a novel and much better-resourced addition to Washington DC’s power circles.…

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