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K Street Lobbyists Are Loving Trump's Tariff Threats
« on: May 08, 2018, 04:57:39 pm »
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The president's aggressive but rudderless trade policy is watering the swamp.

....Federal lobbyists reported pulling in more than $90 million for work related to "tariffs" during the first quarter of 2018, up from just $10 million spent on the same issue during the final quarter of 2017, according to an analysis by The Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay and Betsy Woodruff. Lobbyists who reported working on "tariff" (in the singular) were paid more than $70 million in the first three months of this year, up from a quarterly average of about $32 million last year, the Beast reports......

https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/03/lobbyists-are-loving-trumps-tariffs