Dispute over campaign funds
Republicans are losing patience with Trump
From t online, afp, Reuters
Updated 09/04/2026 – 11:12 amReading time: 3 minutes
Ahead of the midterm elections, some Republicans are losing patience with Trump. They want the president to open the campaign coffers he controls, but he seems to be hesitant.
US President Donald Trump is coming under criticism within the party shortly before the midterm elections in November. More and more Republicans are asking themselves how far Trump’s support goes in the choice of direction. What remains unclear is whether the US President will use the campaign funds he controls from the political fundraising organization MAGA Inc. to support Republican candidates.
Research by the Washington Post suggests that Trump is withholding the money. And this for a very personal motive: For example, to build up private reserves “to secure his own political influence in the selection of candidates in the next presidential election campaign or for later legal fees, travel after his term in office and heart projects such as his presidential library,” writes the paper. The costs for the library alone are estimated at at least a billion dollars; According to the Post, it would be the “most expensive construction of a presidential library to date.”
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In the midterm elections in November A third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be replaced. Given the president’s low popularity ratings, Trump is in danger of losing his majority in both chambers of Parliament. Republicans are even more pressing the president to open his private campaign coffers.
The news portal “Politico” quoted a Republican party donor as saying: “Trump is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars but is doing nothing. It’s already September.” Republicans are threatening to lose patience with Trump.
Dispute over super PAC escalates
The debate within the party is primarily about so-called Super PACs. These are political action committees (English: Political Action Committee – PAC). They were invented to circumvent restrictive US rules on party donations. The trick: Donors don’t give their money to a political candidate directly, but to his support committee. This is how the tech entrepreneur donated Elon Musk just this week around $800,000.
Trump’s MAGA Inc. committee alone ordered it, according to official information At the beginning of last month, over $400 million. Donald Trump is in control of this, not the party. The Republicans are all the more hopeful of Trump.
