Your Tax Dollars are Being Used to Hire Lobbyists to Often Lobby Against the Tax Payer
Texas Public Policy Foundation | July 16, 2025
What to know: Among the items on Governor Abbott’s special session call is a ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying, “including the use of tax dollars to hire lobbyists and payment of tax dollars to associations that lobby the Legislature.”
The TPPF take: Banning taxpayer-funded lobbying is one of the most important items on the special session call.
“Texans often wonder why conservative legislation gets watered down or defeated. Well, the answer is local governments are using our money to hire lobbyists to work against us at the Legislature,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “Taxpayer-funded lobbying is the single biggest stumbling block to fully realizing the conservative agenda in Texas. And it’s long past time to ban it.”