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AIPAC High Score

How much money the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's PAC steered to each member of Georgia's congressional delegation this cycle — lined up like an arcade leaderboard. Every figure comes straight from AIPAC's own federal filings.

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AIPAC Money · Georgia Delegation · 2025–26 Cycle

01LMC(D)Lucy McBath · GA-06$199,357 02BJA(R)Brian Jack · GA-03$154,980 03RMC(R)Rich McCormick · GA-07$53,301 04MCO(R)Mike Collins · GA-10$19,146 05RAL(R)Rick Allen · GA-12$16,397 06BLO(R)Barry Loudermilk · GA-11$16,040 07CFU(R)Clay Fuller · GA-14$5,000 08ASC(R)Austin Scott · GA-08$3,544 09NWI(D)Nikema Williams · GA-05$535 10BCA(R)Buddy Carter · GA-01$9 11ACL(R)Andrew Clyde · GA-09$0 12HJO(D)Hank Johnson · GA-04$0 13JOS(D)Jon Ossoff · U.S. Senate$0 14RWA(D)Raphael Warnock · U.S. Senate$0 15SBI(D)Sanford Bishop · GA-02$0

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Each score is the total AIPAC money to that campaign in the 2025–26 cycle — direct contributions from AIPAC's PAC plus donor money bundled (“earmarked”) through AIPAC and forwarded to the campaign — totaled from AIPAC's own FEC disbursement filings (committee C00797670). The vacant GA-13 seat is omitted.

What is AIPAC?

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a pro-Israel lobbying organization — for decades one of the most influential lobbying forces in Washington, working to align U.S. policy with the Israeli government's positions. For most of its history it did not fund candidates directly; its members gave through separate, unaffiliated PACs.

That changed at the end of 2021, when AIPAC launched its first-ever political action committee and an allied super PAC, the United Democracy Project (UDP), ahead of the 2022 midterms. The move turned one of the country's biggest lobbies into one of its biggest direct spenders in congressional campaigns — almost overnight.

AIPAC PAC → candidates, since 2022~$107M

Federal campaigns funded500+

AIPAC + super PAC, 2024 alone$126.9M

Since launching its PAC for the 2022 cycle, AIPAC's connected PAC has directed roughly $107 million to federal candidates across the 2022, 2024, and 2026 cycles, reaching more than 500 campaigns — figures drawn directly from the committee's FEC filings. Counting its super PAC's independent spending, AIPAC's combined outlay reached $126.9 million in the 2024 election alone, when 318 AIPAC-backed candidates won.

The Controversy

AIPAC's critics — including some members of Congress — argue the group functions as an arm of a foreign government's agenda, and that its money gives the Israeli government outsized influence over U.S. foreign policy regardless of public opinion. Defenders counter that AIPAC is a lawful, transparent, bipartisan lobby exercising the same First Amendment rights as any other interest group.

The sharpest fights have been in Democratic primaries. Through the United Democracy Project, AIPAC has spent heavily to defeat progressive candidates seen as insufficiently supportive of Israel — pouring nearly $10 million to defeat Rep. Jamaal Bowman and millions more against others in 2024, the most ever spent in House primaries by a single group. Critics note the ads rarely mention Israel, instead attacking targets on unrelated issues, which they call a way to obscure the donor's actual motive. Opponents formed a “Reject AIPAC” coalition in 2024 in response.

The spending has drawn intensified scrutiny since the Gaza war that began in October 2023, as AIPAC-funded lawmakers have faced pressure over U.S. military aid and arms sales to Israel during the humanitarian crisis. (Both of Georgia's senators, Ossoff and Warnock, broke with the pro-Israel consensus on several 2024–25 arms-sale votes — and took $0 from AIPAC's PAC this cycle, as the scoreboard above shows.)

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