Pro-Israel PAC Donations Flood 2022 Elections

Money is flooding the 2022 election cycle. There are mammoth sums flowing into American politics, much of it legalized or enabled by the Supreme Court, according to Ellen L. Weintraub, a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC). "The court has equated money with speech, struck down political spending limits and empowered corporations," she says in a Washington Post article. "That is stunningly out of sync with public opinion," she continues, citing a 2018 Pew Research Center poll finding that 77 percent of Americans support limits on political donations. The Supreme Court's May decision in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate now allows donors to slip money directly into an elected official's pocket, she opined. In the 2020 election season, federal fundraising totaled more than $14 billion, and those were just the contributions we know about, according to Weintraub. It is probable the money pouring into future elections may eclipse those numbers.