Dark money groups are increasingly routing their contributions to super PACs aligned with congressional leaders. Sludge
Of the nearly $289.6 million the SLF raised last cycle, the share from One Nation—which marks the names and addresses of its contributors as “restricted” inLast cycle, the 5014 nonprofit Majority Forward contributed $73.3 million to the Senate Majority PAC , an increase of 40% over the 2020 cycle. The group’s president last year was JB Poersch, who is also president of SMP and worked from 2004-2010 at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee , according to his LinkedIn profile.
The ability for tens of millions of dollars to flow secretly to groups that benefit Senate and House leaders sets up questions about whether the money influences what they prioritize legislatively. In the previous Congress, bipartisan lawmakers behind antitrust bills targeting a handful of Big Tech companiessecured to overcome a Senate filibuster and pass both chambers—only to have Majority Leader Chuck Schumer go back on his word and not bring the bills up.
opened the door to unlimited election spending by outside groups, nonprofits that don’t disclose their donors have themselves spent more thanThe DISCLOSE Act, a bill to require greater transparency in the original sources of funding for groups spending on elections, among other provisions, wasrecently in what its sponsor Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse called an effort “to end the corrupting influence of dark-money spending.
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