Trump's Super Pac Raises A Massive $177 Million, Bolstering His Political Influence

The ace PAC affiliated pinch President Donald Trump's raised $177 cardinal successful nan first half of 2025, caller fundraising reports show — pinch GOP megadonors, cardinal Trump friends (including immoderate authorities officials), large business, a secret-money group and nan mother of a personification who received a statesmanlike pardon among those filling nan group's coffers up of adjacent year's midterms.

Even successful an era of overflowing money successful politics, nan monolithic sum sticks out. It is simply a motion that Trump's governmental cognition will proceed to wield awesome power moreover though Trump himself is barred by word limits from moving for president again.

The group spent conscionable $4.6 cardinal complete that time, meaning it has much than $196 cardinal banked distant arsenic Trump continues to put his stamp connected nan Republican Party and looks to support Congress successful GOP power successful nan 2026 midterm elections.

Trump besides has yet much money nestled distant successful different committees he tin usage for various governmental causes.

The database of MAGA Inc. donors included Elizabeth Fago of Florida, who made a aid of $1 cardinal connected April 3. Nursing location executive Paul Walczak, Fago's son, received a pardon from Trump connected April 23 aft having pleaded blameworthy to taxation crimes months earlier. According to The New York Times, Walczak’s pardon exertion highlighted Fago’s governmental activity, and Fago attended a pricey fundraiser for nan Trump ace PAC soon earlier Walczak received a pardon.

Fago's $1 cardinal aid exceeds each of her erstwhile individual donations to GOP campaigns combined, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Billionaire GOP megadonor Jeff Yass, who donated $16 cardinal to nan group, was nan Trump ace PAC's apical donor. After he sent MAGA Inc. $1 cardinal days earlier Trump's inauguration, Yass gave $15 cardinal much successful early March.

His trading patient holds a important stake successful nan genitor institution of nan Chinese societal media elephantine TikTok, and Trump has repeatedly delayed implementing authorities banning nan app successful America until it could beryllium sold to an American owner.

The second-largest aid successful nan caller report, $13.75 million, came from a nonprofit group called Securing American Greatness Inc. The nonprofit group popped up successful 2024 and ran ads connected Trump's behalf up of past year's election, and it doesn't person to publically disclose its donors.

Kelcy Warren, nan caput of nan power institution Energy Transfer LP, gave nan Trump ace PAC $12.5 million, while nan cryptocurrency firms Foris DAX and Blockchain.com gave $10 cardinal and $5 million, respectively.

Elon Musk besides chipped successful $5 cardinal to MAGA Inc. connected June 27, erstwhile he besides gave nan same amounts to nan main Republican ace PACs progressive successful House and Senate races.

Musk spent heavy to thief Trump triumph past twelvemonth and joined his White House. But conscionable weeks earlier his aid to nan pro-Trump group, he near nan White House while criticizing Trump's signature taxation cuts and spending measure and attacking Trump for his ties to convicted activity offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Kelly Loeffler, who is now a personnel of Trump's Cabinet arsenic caput of nan Small Business Administration, gave $2.5 cardinal to MAGA Inc. connected June 25. Her husband, Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher, gave different $2.5 million.

Jared Isaacman, nan billionaire entrepreneur Trump tapped to lead NASA earlier he pulled his information successful early June, gave nan group $1 cardinal connected nan last time of June.

And Warren Stephens, nan Arkansas-based businessman whom Trump nominated arsenic his ambassador to nan United Kingdom, gave $1 million.

Other salient donors include:

• Venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, who each gave $3 million.
• Ronald Lauder, an heir to nan Estée Lauder cosmetics and a pro-Israel activist, who gave $5 million.
• Billionaire businessman Timothy Mellon, who gave almost $2 million.
• Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson, nan president of In-N-Out Burger, who gave $2 million.
• William Ford, an finance CEO who is besides connected nan committee of TikTok genitor institution ByteDance, who gave $1.25 million.
• Antonio Gracias, a backstage equity CEO who served successful a high-ranking, unpaid domiciled pinch Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency," who gave $1 million.
• Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones, who gave $1 million.
• Tyler and Cameron Winkelvoss, nan entrepreneurs and early Bitcoin investors, who each gave astir $500,000.