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Microsoft Tries to Hide Its Risks, and Anti-Trump Bias, from the Government

https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/26/microsoft-tries-to-hide-its-risks-and-anti-trump-bias-from-the-government/

Microsoft’s grip on Washington survived cyber failures, China ties, and the revolving door—but national security may finally force a reckoning.

By Paul Bradford

May 26, 2026

Microsoft is one of the largest tech providers for the American government. That’s in spite of the company’s cozy ties with China and its products’ numerous security risks. It’s also a company with a noted left-wing bias, which puts it at odds with the Trump administration.

The tech giant’s current relationship with the government doesn’t put the nation first, but that may soon change. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) has called on the Department of Justice to review Microsoft’s many problems and reassess the government’s relationship with the company.

Microsoft has caught the eye of someone very important in the administration. The president lashed out last year at the company for hiring Lisa Monaco, a former Biden official. “Monaco has been shockingly hired as the President of Global Affairs for Microsoft, in a very senior role with access to Highly Sensitive Information,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Monaco’s having that kind of access is unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand. She is a menace to U.S. National Security, especially given the major contracts that Microsoft has with the United States Government.”

Monaco’s role at Microsoft is one of the reasons AAF wants the government to look into its relationship with the tech giant. According to the group’s report, then-Deputy Attorney General Monaco played a key role in the Biden administration’s ignoring Microsoft’s security risks and vulnerabilities. Monaco isn’t the only Biden official with close ties to Microsoft. There are five others with senior roles in both the previous administration and the company. Many of them worked on Microsoft-related matters while in the government. This raises obvious ethical issues.

Microsoft’s security risks and vulnerabilities are numerous, according to AAF:

Between 2019 and 2023, Microsoft suffered five major cyber intrusions perpetrated by Russian intelligence services, Chinese state-sponsored actors, and Russian cybercriminal groups. Taken together, the intrusions were among the most damaging series of breaches of U.S. government information systems in American history. Those intrusions penetrated the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Departments of Treasury, State, Commerce, and Justice, as well as the National Security Council and numerous other federal agencies. They resulted in the theft of tens of thousands of government emails, including correspondence from the U.S. Ambassador to China, the Secretary of Commerce, and senior Microsoft executives themselves.

A 2024 Cyber Safety Review Board assessment found that Microsoft’s security culture was “inadequate” and that a number of breaches had taken place because of the company’s inattentiveness to its “cascade of security failures.”

Microsoft has been repeatedly warned about its systemic vulnerabilities, but has done little to correct them. Maybe the company believes its employment of several government officials ensures they’ll continue to receive contracts regardless of the risks.

As American Greatness has previously reported, the tech giant has a disturbingly close relationship with China, raising even further security concerns. Elements of the Chinese military and intelligence apparatuses have access to critical Microsoft technology. The company also has partnerships with Chinese institutions that develop security tech for the CCP. It’s clear that this connection can lead to Chinese agents getting hold of critical information relating to our national security and the technology we depend on.

To ensure the national interest, not Microsoft’s interests, is put first, AAF wants the government to do a thorough review of its relationship with the company and the revolving door between it and federal employment.

“Public confidence in federal cybersecurity, in federal contracting, and in the impartial administration of federal law enforcement depends on the willingness of the institutions named in this letter to ask hard questions when the public record suggests they should be asked,” AAF states.

We can’t let the deals and agreements made by past Democratic administrations dictate our nation’s future, especially when they present risks to our national security.