{"id":622312,"date":"2026-06-30T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/crypto-companies-have-spent-189m-so-far-on-2026-us-election-cycle-report\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:53:04","slug":"crypto-companies-have-spent-189m-so-far-on-2026-us-election-cycle-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/crypto-companies-have-spent-189m-so-far-on-2026-us-election-cycle-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto companies have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election cycle: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/dollars-fly-away-us-senate.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto companies have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election cycle: Report\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The crypto industry, big tech and gambling interest groups are betting big on politicians in the 2026 primaries and elections, with almost $300 million shelled out  so far.<\/p>\n<p>The US consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday reported that the cryptocurrency industry had contributed $189 million toward the 2026 election cycle, following its 2024 playbook.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report released Tuesday, the nonprofit organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/corporate-supremacist-super-pacs-500-million-midterm-crypto-ai-sports-betting\/\">said<\/a> that about 37% of all corporate contributions in the 2026 US election cycle could be traced to crypto companies, totaling about $189 million so far, with more than four months until the November election. <\/p>\n<p>While the watchdog group said that the crypto-aligned political action committee (PAC) Fairshake was responsible for spending more than $82 million so far, the MAGA Inc. Super PAC, largely backed by Crypto.com, had spent more than $56 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-companies-spent-2026-us-election-cycle-public-citizen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto industry, big tech and gambling interest groups are betting big on politicians in the 2026 primaries and elections, with almost $300 million shelled out so far. The US consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday reported that the cryptocurrency industry had contributed $189 million toward the 2026 election cycle, following its 2024 playbook. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-622312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}