Look Who’s Backing Biden’s Foreign Policy: The Kochs

In the days following the fall of Kabul and the collapse of the Afghan government, the Biden administration found itself locking arms with a group that’s long been radioactive in the Democratic Party: the Kochs.

Rewind a decade, and the billionaire Koch brothers were the bête noire of the Obama administration, singled out by the president and his allies — including then-Vice President Joe Biden — as a singularly destructive force in American politics. “What we’re worried about is the Koch brothers and their friends bringing in millions and millions of dollars,” Biden said during the 2014 midterms, later declaring that dirty Koch money was chasing “reasonable” Republicans out of politics.