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Report Finds Resumption of Giving by Defense Company PACs to GOP Members

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

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Report Finds Resumption of Giving by Defense Company PACs to GOP Members

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

Defense companies’ pause in all political donations by their Political Action Committees (PACs) in the wake of last year's Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has not endured. Moreover, according to a new study by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), the PACs of Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] are among the top 10 PAC givers to those among 147 GOP congressional members--139 representatives and eight senators--who voted not to certify the Electoral…

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