Exactly what part of the fact that Trump has grown the swamp to it's highest level ever, did you not comprehend dum#ss?????????????????????? Trump campaigned on draining and his idiotic supporters believed he would!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/draining-the-swamp-dc-lobbying-during-trump-administration-surges-to-highest-level-in-7-years/ar-AAvduZT?li=BBnb7Kz
eagleye13 wrote:
Loon!!!!
Either you didn't read the article you just posted, or you failed to comprehend much of what is written.
It says lefty's (Soros for example) are spending big time to fight Trump's swamp draining.
"The nonprofit Open Society Policy Center, aligned with liberal billionaire George Soros, reported $16.1 million in spending last year, a record for the organization since it began reporting federal lobbying in 2002. Much of the money â a total of $10.3 million â was spent in the last three months of the year and largely reflects grants Open Society made to other, aligned groups to support their lobbying activity, officials said.
Congressional records show Open Society lobbying efforts included a push to limit child trafficking and measures introduced by congressional Democrats that would prohibit Trump from making a preemptive strike against North Korea without congressional approval.
âWe make different grants each year depending on what is happening in Congress and there was a lot going in 2017: Protecting immigrants and refugees, preserving fairness in the tax code, advocating for criminal justice reform, pressing for disaster relief for Puerto Rico, and promoting a progressive U.S. foreign policy,â Jonathan Kaplan, an Open Society spokesman, said in an email.
Lobbying also soared during the last three months of the year for the National Association of Realtors, which spent $22.2 million during the fourth-quarter of 2017, double what it spent during the previous three months, congressional records show.
The 1.3 million-member Realtors group waged an aggressive lobbying campaign to reshape the tax overhaul that sped through Congress at yearâs end. The trade group flew in local Realtors to Washington and ran ads targeting key lawmakers as it worked to defeat a slew of provisions opposed by the industry in an original House version of the tax bill.
"There was a lot on the table," Jamie Gregory, the Realtors' deputy chief lobbyist said. "In the end, we needed to be fully engaged to get as much of that neutralized before the final bill passed."
Among the wins Realtors have touted: Preserving an exemption from capital gains taxes when homeowners profit from the sale of their primary residence and beating back a provision that would have limited the mortgage interest deduction for home purchases to those with new loans of $500,000 or less.
The final law increased the cap to $750,000.
The Realtors already have begun lobbying to ease other provisions that made it into the final law, such as a new, $10,000 cap on the deductions that individual taxpayers can take to offset local and state income, sales and property taxes.
Previously, there was no cap, and the change hits pocketbooks of homeowners who live in counties and states with high property taxes.
"We are going to see if we can't start to nibble away" at the law, Gregory said."
BTW; The Swamp to be drained are the crooked politicians and now the "Deep State" lifers.
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