campaign contributions

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said it’s up to individuals if they return campaign donations from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and she “possibly could” advocate people return the money

The Michigan Republican Party filed a complaint this week against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), seeking equal application of a state campaign finance law among all gubernatorial candidates after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) raked in several donations far exceeding the state’s contribution limit.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MI) solicited donations to her reflection committee to join an “elite club” and joining policy discussions with special guests such as Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).

Teachers Union PACs are spiking campaign contributions to Democrat congressional candidates and committees as the Congress debates school reopening and money for education, according to a report.

Fact check – CLAIM: Democrat billionaire-turned-presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg funded Republican campaigns. VERDICT: True, though Bloomberg has also funded — or “bought,” as he almost said — Democrats as well.

Ross Perot, the populist Texas billionaire who passed away on Tuesday, did not donate to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign as major media outlets reported.

Stacey Plaskett, the delegate to the U.S House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands, is unlikely to return the thousands of dollars donated to her campaign by Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire sex offender recently arrested for child sex trafficking. 

GOP is asking Democratic candidates across the U.S. to return money given to them by now-disgraced Sen. Al Franken (D-MN).

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) is pledging to return $2,000 worth of donations from Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, who is reportedly under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Why now? That was the first question many were asking this weekend after explosive revelations came to light about Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most powerful men, and decades of alleged sexual harassment on his part.

Congressional Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and potential 2020 presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren among them, are starting to give charities thousands of dollars in donations they had received from disgraced Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) will donate campaign contributions he received from Harvey Weinstein to charity, his spokesman said Friday, joining at least three other Democrats who have pledged to donate their contributions after a New York Times exposé published Thursday detailed decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer and Democratic Party power player.

Quarterly campaign filings indicate that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) took “$87,000” from individuals tied to gun control law firm Paul, Weiss.

Progressive groups want Senators on the education committee to recuse themselves if they got campaign contributions from Betsy DeVos, the nominee for the education department post.

Dr. Kelli Ward raised more than $660,000 last year to launch her campaign to oust Sen. John McCain, Ward’s campaign tells Breitbart News exclusively.

A new study has examined the political leanings of some of the top coffee distributors in the United States–and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Starbucks is the most liberal.