Five Republicans in Congress had SpaceX money on the line — four of them bought in the week of the IPO while sitting on committees that oversee parts of the company's business. Six weeks later, every one of them voted for a stock-trading bill that bans new purchases but lets them keep what they already own.
AIPAC and its allies spent $8 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman who wouldn't fall in line. Here's how a lobby funded by a few billionaires came to own both parties' votes on war and peace.
Husted's campaign has taken $69,750 from the tech and utility companies at the center of Ohio's data center fight — seven years after he defended Google's $43.5 million tax break.
He voted against pulling U.S. troops out of the Iran war, sponsored a bill to bring back the coal industry's advisory council, and the top name on his donor list is a crypto firm whose billionaire founders gave him $24,000.
A stock-tracking firm estimates Nebraska's billionaire senator gained $8.6 million in the market in a single month. He's the 7th wealthiest member of Congress — and he voted to let health care tax credits expire.
Trump endorsed Rick Jackson after backing his primary opponent — and told a reporter Jackson had given him 'a couple of' million dollars. Jackson then stood on stage and promised to be 'this man's favorite governor.'
Citadel's Ken Griffin gave $10 million to a PAC backing Byron Donalds for Florida governor — the biggest contribution Donalds has received, and the latest in a long run of Griffin buying Florida politics.
Florida gubernatorial frontrunner Byron Donalds is one of 60 Republicans co-sponsoring HR 6213, which would block the first-ever federal rule protecting workers from deadly heat.
At a July hearing, House Republicans didn't push back on the gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — they asked how to make it permanent.
