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WA ST BUDGET & POLICY CENTER

WA ST BUDGET & POLICY CENTER paid $110K to lobby Washington state government over 2016–2026, through 23 lobbying firms.

$110K

reported paid to lobby

Reported by the lobbying firms this organisation engaged, naming it as the source of the money. It is not this organisation’s own account of what it spent — that is a separate filing, and the two need not agree.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 2016–2026, money paid

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What they paid, by year

Lobbying is reported monthly and totalled here by calendar year. A year with no row is a year with no reported compensation, not a year we have not read.

Reported lobbying compensation by year
Year Paid Share of their largest year
2026 $10,297
2025 $26,957
2024 $6,344
2023 $4,049
2022 $5,668
2021 $10,226
2020 $13,782
2019 $20,572
2018 $9,083
2017 $842
2016 $2,147

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 11 years on record

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Firms they engaged

Every lobbying firm that named this organisation as a source of its compensation, and how much it reported.

Lobbying firms engaged
Firm Reported
RNJ Strategies $25,400
MISHA WERSCHKUL $18,837
ANDREW NICHOLAS $15,165
Emily Vyhnanek $8,793
Julie L. Watts $8,755
Maggie J Humphreys $7,000
Margaret Babayan $4,339
Melinda Young-Flynn $4,296
Jennifer Tran $3,253
Tracy Yeung $2,695
Preston Parish $1,395
Elizabeth Olson $1,370
KELLI SMITH $1,367
ELENA HERNANDEZ $1,088
Eli Taylor Goss $1,010
Evan Walker $983
Mia Shigemura $972
Sumayyah Waheed $933
Molly Webster $859
Kaitie Dong $642
LORI PFINGST $584
Leila Reynolds $133
Hana A. Jang $100

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 23 listed

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Connected records

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This record’s page in the entity graph: /employers/pdc-employer-16213/

On the record · 45

One document states the relation in its own words.

Nothing on file

Bills this client’s lobbyists reported working on are not in the graph — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded, which is not the same as no lobbying having occurred. No contribution edge reaches an employer: money a client gives to a committee is filed by the client under its own PDC contributor identity, a different record.

Checked 2026-10-20

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-10-20 · edges 45 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

What this money bought
Compensation is what was paid, not what was achieved. The record does not connect a payment to a bill, a vote or an outcome, and we will not infer one — a firm retained all session may have lost every argument it made.
Who was lobbied
Washington requires lobbyists to report what they were paid and by whom. It does not require them to report which legislators they spoke to, so nothing here names an officeholder.
Everything this organisation spent
This is compensation paid to registered lobbying firms. Advertising, an in-house employee who lobbies as part of a wider job, and campaign contributions are separate filings and are not added in.
Whose number this is
Every figure on this page comes from the lobbying firm’s own report naming its funding source. Employers file separately, and the two accounts need not agree. Where they differ we show the firm’s, because that is the filing that itemises by source.

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“WA ST BUDGET & POLICY CENTER,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-10-20, accessed 2026-10-25. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/wa-st-budget-and-policy-center/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist compensation (L2 reports)
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist employment registrations
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists

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