The massive lobbying effort behind the GOP tax scam

Share Blue - Over 6,000 lobbyists — more than half of all registered lobbyists in the nation's capitol — had a say in the GOP's tax scam bill.
 
Republicans gave high-priced lobbyists more access to their tax scam bill than they deigned to give duly elected Democratic senators.

In fact, Senate Democrats received more information about the final details of the bill from those lobbyists than from their Republican colleagues.

According to a new analysis by government watchdog group Public Citizen, “6,243 lobbyists have been listed on lobbying disclosure forms as working on issues involving the word ‘tax’ through the first three quarters of 2017.”

That is 57 percent of all registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. — more than 11 lobbyists for each elected member of Congress.

Further, 31 of the lobbyists identified by Public Citizen have direct connections to either Donald Trump or Mike Pence.