Elon Musk gives millions to Republican super PACs ahead of the midterms
Billionaire Elon Musk may be gone from President Donald Trump’s White House, but he may not be done with Republican politics.
Musk made a pair of $5 million donations on June 27 to the main super PACs backing House and Senate Republicans. That made Musk the largest individual donor to both groups in the first six months of 2025, according to new campaign finance reports filed Thursday.
The new contributions are further proof of how Musk can make a big splash in politics by putting his signature on just one check. And they raise the question of how much more there might be before the midterms, despite Musk’s messy post-White House breakup with Trump and his statements in July about starting a third party, made after the donations.
Musk’s June 27 donations supporting the Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, the two GOP super PACs, came about a month after leaving his official post as an adviser to Trump and days before he began publicly discussing the idea of starting a new political party after the passage of Trump's big domestic spending bill.
In between, he had feuded with Trump online, even attacking Trump for his past personal ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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