The groups backing RFK Jr. are running low on cash

Source: Politico

04/24/2026 12:00 PM EDT


Leaders of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement say they’ll help Republicans stay in power – but they’ve got little money to do it. Last month, Tony Lyons, the ally of the health secretary who runs the MAHA PAC, said he’d raise $100 million to support Republicans, bolstering President Donald Trump’s view that MAHA voters will help Republicans maintain their majorities in Congress this year.

But a POLITICO analysis of MAHA PAC and the only other active political action committee aligned with the movement, a linked Super PAC, found they have just over $412,000 in available cash. What money they have raised has largely come from the pharma industry, whose clout in Washington Kennedy has decried for decades.

The MAHA PAC, whose mission is to “elect Republicans to the House and Senate who will champion the MAHA agenda,” received only 37 donations since January 2025, POLITICO found, totaling around $1.5 million. That’s about 1 percent of what the Republican Party’s fundraising arm, WinRed, spent last month.

Almost ninety percent of donations came from just 10 entities, half of whom have ties to the drug industry. The poor fundraising raises questions about whether Kennedy’s allies have the wherewithal to bring out the vote. “It’s hard to actually refer to MAHA as a movement when you’re looking at just a small number of donors providing the vast majority of financial support,” said Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a nonprofit watchdog that studies conservative groups.

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