"The political operation founded by Charles and David Koch raised and spent well over half a billion dollars during the 2024 election cycle, showing that the family unit remains a financial juggernaut despite its opposition to President Trump’s re-election.
Mr. Trump is no fan of the libertarian politics long pushed by Charles Koch, now 90, and David Koch, who died in 2019. But their network’s huge 2024 spending, revealed in new tax filings provided to The New York Times, points to the operation’s staying power even in a party in which it has diminished influence.
During the two-year 2024 election cycle, the family’s network raised about $578 million and spent about $548 million, the documents show. The two flagship Koch political and policy organizations, the nonprofit group Americans for Prosperity and a sibling super PAC, Americans for Prosperity Action, took in $397 million and $181 million from donors over that period.
Much of the overall money raised appears to stem from more than $5 billion in Koch Industries stock that Charles Koch directed into the network between 2020 and 2022."
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