AIPAC Money in Congress: Who They Backed, Who They Fought

What AIPAC’s PAC and the United Democracy Project Actually Are

Two American political committees do almost all of this spending, and they work very differently. The AIPAC PAC (FEC ID C00797670) gives money directly to campaigns — about $9.6 million to 511 candidates in our data. The United Democracy Project (FEC ID C00799031) is AIPAC’s super PAC: it cannot give to campaigns, so instead it runs independent expenditures — mostly advertising — for and against candidates. That super PAC accounts for the bulk of the money: about $68.5 million, concentrated on a few dozen high-stakes races.

Every Sitting Member, Ranked by AIPAC Money

This table is live from FEC filings. It covers current members of Congress — sort by money spent to support them (green) or to oppose them (red), filter by party, chamber or direction, or search a name. Because it only includes people currently in Congress, the totals here are smaller than the full $78M program: most of the “against” money was spent to defeat challengers who lost and never took office (see AIPAC’s most expensive races below).

AIPAC’s Most Expensive Races

The headline dollars aren’t in the donations — they’re in the opposition spending. Through the United Democracy Project, AIPAC ran the most expensive independent-expenditure campaigns against a handful of mostly progressive Democrats in 2024 primaries. These candidate-level totals include people who lost and therefore don’t appear in the sitting-member table above.

The Members AIPAC Spent the Most to Elect

On the other side of the ledger, a smaller group of candidates received the heaviest support — often the winners of the very races where AIPAC was spending against someone else. George Latimer beat Bowman; Wesley Bell beat Bush; Sarah Elfreth beat Donna Edwards. The support runs through both the direct AIPAC PAC and supporting independent expenditures from the United Democracy Project.

Where the Money Meets the Trading Floor

This is the part no other AIPAC tracker shows. Some of the members AIPAC’s committees backed are also among the most active stock traders in Congress — the same people who write and vote on the laws that move those stocks. The two ledgers below sit side by side for the first time: AIPAC support on the left, disclosed STOCK Act trades on the right. We draw no line between them — we just put them in the same row.

AIPAC’s Spending, Cycle by Cycle

The program peaked in 2024, when AIPAC spent more to oppose candidates ($23.9M) than to support them ($19.9M) — the cycle of the Bowman and Bush primaries. The figures below cover only the two core committees; the 2026 number is still building, and as reported in 2026, AIPAC has also begun routing money through additional conduit committees that are not counted here (see methodology).

How We Count It

Every figure aggregates FEC filings from the AIPAC PAC (C00797670) and the United Democracy Project (C00799031), tied to each candidate and split by FEC transaction type. Independent expenditures opposing a candidate (code 24A) count as opposing; independent expenditures supporting a candidate (code 24E) and direct PAC contributions (code 24K) count as supporting. “Opposing” money was spent to defeat that candidate, not given to them.

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Not financial advice. All data from public federal disclosures. GovGreed reports disclosed political spending and does not allege that any committee, candidate or member violated any law.