Facebook has hired a former aide to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE to serve as the company’s director of executive branch public policy, Axios reported Thursday.

Sandy Luff was the legislative director of Sessions’s Senate office before the Alabama Republican was tapped as the Trump administration’s top law enforcement official earlier this year. Luff was also on President Trump's transition team.

Facebook also hired Nu Wexler, a former Democratic congressional communications aide who had been working in Twitter’s PR shop until March, Axios reported.

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Facebook appears to be trying to increase its influence with the Trump administration. Sessions has been one of President Trump’s closest advisers, and his earliest supporter in Congress during the campaign.

"Sandy's experience and understanding of the political landscape will make her an invaluable asset to our team. We are excited to have her aboard," Facebook's vice president of U.S. public policy, Greg Maurer, said in a statement.

Updated at 10:01 a.m.