Surprise Surprise GOP Staffers Who Wrote #GOPTaxScam Are Cashing In With K St. Lobbyest's

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The #GOPTaxScam is making Republican staffers who helped write it wealthy.

What a surprise, right? Not.

This is the Republican tax scam that lavished the wealthy few, including Donald Trump, Bob “Kickback” Corker with tax cuts. The scam that crippled the ACA into skyrocketing health care premiums. The tax scam that blew up the debt by $1.5 trillion dollars.

This is K Street’s gift to those who lavished them and their clients with tax cuts.

Top-level GOP aides who helped write the new tax law are now leaving the Hill in droves to cash in as lobbyists on K Street and other marquee private-sector destinations.

Powerhouse accounting firm PwC landed one of the biggest prizes, announcing Monday that Mark Prater, the Senate Finance Committee's longtime GOP chief tax counsel, is the new managing director of its tax policy services group.

Others who have made the switch include a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Brendan Dunn, who joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in May as a partner in its public law and policy practice. Some less visible tax aides from both chambers have also gone through the revolving door to companies hoping to rake in new business and more profits from the package of tax cuts and legal changes.

And it's not just a Hill phenomenon.

Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Shahira Knight, who was at the negotiating table on behalf of the White House as the tax bill developed, is heading to The Clearing House, a banking policy and lobbying group, that company said Monday. Knight has previously worked as a lobbyist, as well as a Ways and Means staffer.

For many like Prater and Dunn, the time is right: Tax cuts they helped develop and shepherd through Congress have been signed into law, and demand is peaking for their services outside of Congress, meaning they can earn much more than the roughly $170,000 annual salaries they were each making, according to data from LegiStorm.

Meanwhile to pay for the #GOPTaxScam the Republican Party is cutting $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program, at the direction of Donald Trump.

Children in need of health care paying for tax cuts and K Street jobs. Priorities.

This folks, is evil.

House Republicans voted Thursday to cut $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The measure passed the House of Representatives with only Republican votes, 210-206.

The CHIP program provides health insurance to millions of low-income children and pregnant women.

Trump tweeted in support of “historic” legislation that cut “wasteful spending.” He described the so-called rescissions package as a sign “we are getting our government back on track.”

Surprise, Surprise: GOP Staffers Who Wrote #GOPTaxScam Are Cashing In With K Street Lobbying Jobs