Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz's Big Fundraising PAC is Nearly Broke

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz’s Big Fundraising PAC is Nearly Broke
The two firebrands have their own fundraising problems, too.

Russ Choma


𝑅𝑒𝓅𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝑅𝑒𝓅𝓈. 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝒿𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝒯𝒶𝓎𝓁𝑜𝓇 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑀𝒶𝓉𝓉 𝒢𝒶𝑒𝓉𝓏 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓇𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒮𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝒥𝓊𝓁𝓎 𝟣𝟩, 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟣, 𝒾𝓃 𝑅𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒, 𝒞𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒻. 𝒞𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓎 𝒴𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓀𝒶/𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒪𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝓎 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝒶 𝒜𝒫

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz both have a knack for ginning up outrage and stealing headlines. All this sound and fury is assumed to hoover up dollars from the riled up grassroots, but that’s not true, according to the most recent campaign finance filings.

Despite the two spending the summer barnstorming the country on a grand fundraising swing they dubbed the America First tour, (the moniker adopted after scraping the “Angl0-Saxon” caucus), neither Greene nor Gaetz lived up to expectations on the fundraising end. And, just six months after founding it, the joint fundraising committee they launched to drive their tour is nearly broke.
The joint fundraising committee launched to drive the two firebrand’s tour is nearly broke. The PAC has $13,000 in cash.

In its first few months, the Put America First PAC seemed like it was off to a hot start, raising $360,000 in its first two months—but according to new campaign finance filings made by the PAC it now has just $13,000 in cash. Multiple tour stops were cancelled this summer. Gaetz and Greene did hold at least one major event in Iowa in August. Despite attracting big headlines, the rally was, apparently, a financial bust. The group spent $159,000 from July 1 to September 30, and raised just $57,000.

While Greene is definitely more successful—in her short Congressional career she’s raised more than $8.8 million—the most recent numbers filed by her own campaign show her fundraising totals are increasingly eaten up by the costs of chasing donors and paying off the operatives and professional fundraising consultants and vendors that she hires.

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