House Speaker Mike Johnson has raised a whopping $32.2 million in campaign funds during the first quarter of the year since Republicans swept into the trifecta governance in Washington of the presidency and both houses of Congress.
The speaker has given $5 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee and $4 million to Republican incumbents. His team called the haul the most amount of money raised during a single quarter ever.
Reacting to the quarterly report, Johnson posted on X, “After we defended our majority, the American people are enthusiastic about keeping House Republicans on offense in 2026. While we deliver our America First agenda, we are also building a massive war chest by hitting the ground running in the first quarter.”
But Democrats have outperformed Republicans in fundraising, and that has shown up in the numbers. The NRCC had $15…
