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Members of Congress have raked in more than $120 million from corporate political action committees this election cycle. Almost two-thirds has gone to Republicans, according to a MapLight analysis.
MapLight filed a lawsuit today to force New Jersey officials to release copies of correspondence between former Gov. Chris Christie’s office and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
Seven current or former members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet have spent almost $450,000 in political campaign funds since being confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Three major corporate donors to a pro-Trump nonprofit whose officials have expressed racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic sentiments announced this weekend they would stop giving money to the dark money organization.
Three Fortune 500 companies have donated at least $1.6 million to a controversial pro-Trump “dark money” organization that’s been criticized for racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Muslim sentiments expressed by its staff.
A political committee backed by wealthy donors who support charter schools has spent more than $15 million on the California governor’s race -- the most by any single independent expenditure committee in a California governor’s race since online data has been available.
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Scott Pruitt Meetings and Contributions
Since March 2017, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt has met with at least 39 organizations that donated $286,000 to his Oklahoma campaigns or affiliated political committees.
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