Staffers Are Already Calculating Their Price
The TMZ bounty is already warping behavior on the Hill. Congressional staffers are actively workshopping what their gossip is worth.
Polymarket now has insider trading as a feature, not a bug. And yes, staffers being criminally underpaid is the root of all of this.
One hot topic for staffers: TMZ's practice of paying for tips. Unclear if the org is paying tipsters for its Congress coverage, but one Republican staffer told me their colleagues have been talking about how much money it would take for them to hand over Congress gossip:
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