NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL BIG BILL: Don’t think for a minute that lobbyists working on behalf of all kinds of special interests took a holiday while the Senate and House were wrangling through their competing versions of that Big Beautiful Bill.

In my latest Substack column, you will find details, courtesy of the American Accountability Foundation’s (AAF) Thomas Jones, of what appears to be a worrisome connection, albeit indirect, between a Senate GOP staffer working for Sen. Bill Cassidy on the HELP Committee and a big liberal lobbyist outfit.