Congressional Leaders Are Embracing Dark Money Like Never Before

Three of the four super PACs aligned with House and Senate leaders brought in record high amounts from their "dark money" affiliates in the midterms.

Congressional Leaders Are Embracing Dark Money Like Never Before
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) listen during a ceremony on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Washington, DC.

In his first interview after the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire FTX, founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the surprising admission that he had donated as much to Republicans as he had to Democrats—just that, as he put it, “All my Republican donations were dark.”