Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276 million in donations

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Elon Musk has poured at least $276 million into the midterms since the summer, re-emerging as the top known donor to the Republican Party.

A spokesperson for Musk’s main political group, America PAC, confirmed the figure on Monday, three days before a key campaign finance disclosure deadline.

A majority of Musk’s latest giving — $158 million — went to the Senate Leadership Fund, the top Republican super PAC in Senate races, according to the spokesperson. The group is currently spending big to retain a Senate seat in Texas, a state that is hugely important to Musk’s business empire.

The figure, which covers Musk’s giving from July onward, was first reported by The New York Times .

Musk, the world’s richest person, donated nearly $300 million during the 2024 campaign to help Donald Trump win the presidential election. The financial support made him a top target of Democrats, especially as he returned to Washington with Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, a government cost-cutting project.

Musk said in May 2025 that he would “do a lot less” political spending in the future, and he later fell out with Trump over his signature tax and domestic policy law. But their relationship has appeared to improve since then, and Trump last week honored Musk with the National Medal of Science.

Musk’s apparent interest in Texas comes as the state’s GOP attorney general, Ken Paxton, is in a tight Senate race against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. Texas has not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994.

The Senate Leadership Fund has poured well over $100 million into the Texas contest. The group has said the massive red-state outlay is coming from a “dedicated” fund and not diverting resources away from other competitive Senate races.

Thursday is the deadline for campaigns and certain political action committees, including America PAC, to report their finances to the Federal Election Commission for the past three months.

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自夏季以来，埃隆·马斯克已向中期选举投入至少 2.76 亿美元，再次成为共和党最大的知名捐助者。

马斯克的主要政治团体“美国政治行动委员会”（America PAC）的一位发言人周一证实了这一数字，当时距离关键的竞选财务披露截止日期还有三天。

据发言人称，马斯克最近捐赠的大部分资金——1.58亿美元——流向了参议院领导基金，该基金是参议院竞选中共和党最大的超级政治行动委员会。该组织目前正斥巨资力图保住德克萨斯州的一个参议院席位，而德克萨斯州对马斯克的商业帝国至关重要。

该数字涵盖了马斯克从 7 月开始的捐赠，最早由《纽约时报》报道。

世界首富马斯克在2024年总统竞选期间捐赠了近3亿美元，帮助唐纳德·特朗普赢得大选。这笔资金支持使他成为民主党的主要攻击目标，尤其是在他随特朗普重返华盛顿领导政府效率部（一个旨在削减政府开支的项目）之后。

马斯克在2025年5月表示，未来他将“大幅减少”政治支出。之后，他因特朗普标志性的税收和国内政策法案与特朗普决裂。但此后两人关系似乎有所改善，特朗普上周还授予马斯克国家科学奖章。

马斯克对德克萨斯州表现出的明显兴趣，正值该州共和党籍总检察长肯·帕克斯顿与民主党籍州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科展开激烈的参议员竞选之际。自1994年以来，德克萨斯州就再也没有选出过民主党籍的州级官员。

参议院领导基金已向德克萨斯州的竞选投入超过1亿美元。该组织表示，这笔巨额资金来自“专项”基金，并未挪用其他竞争激烈的参议院竞选的资源。

周四是各竞选活动和某些政治行动委员会（包括美国政治行动委员会）向联邦选举委员会报告过去三个月财务状况的最后期限。