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A White House adviser stomped all over the Hatch Act by soliciting donations for Democratic Party candidates in this year’s elections, according to the Office of Special Counsel. Neena Tanden has served in the Biden White House as the outgoing president’s domestic policy chief, according to The Hill. “Congress created a rule banning all federal employees from fundraising for political candidates,” Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger said in a news release. “The Hatch Act contains no escape hatch for White House officials.” “My office is asking the Merit Systems Protection Board to hold Ms. Tande…