The trouble for the wealth fund and the tour is that Washington also has a bipartisan affection for lawmakers imitating sports executives, and browbeating actual ones, in public and in private.
The tour and the wealth fund can take some comfort in history, which suggests a successful congressional effort to thwart the deal directly is unlikely.
The Hill, though, could still seek to make the transaction painful beyond a feisty public hearing or two.
Groups like the PGA Tour have combated legislative headaches surrounding their tax-exempt status in the past, with one effort to end the practice for sports leagues vanishing from a 2017 tax bill at the last moment.
In the past 18 months, years after the N.F.L.
Persons:
Blumenthal, Ron Wyden, “, ”
Organizations:
Major League Baseball, Democrat, Senate Finance Committee
Locations:
Washington, Oregon