A Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows that in 2023, more than 60% of political contributions made to prominent political committees by employees in the federal government's 15 Cabinet-level departments will be made by Joe Biden.・It was passed on to President Biden and other Democratic politicians.

DCNF lists employers as one of 15 Cabinet agencies to make contributions for the 2023 calendar year to the Biden campaign, the Biden Victory Fund, the Trump campaign, Save America PAC, and their respective Congressional and Senate fundraising committees. Filtered donations by individuals who donated to. For each party.

Federal employees contributed about $200,000 to Biden's campaign financing vehicles, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, from January to November 2023. Conversely, federal employees donated just over half that amount, about $116,000, to former President Donald Trump. At the same time, the Campaign Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Not all people who donate to political campaigns list their employers, and some federal employees may list their employers as subdivisions of cabinet-level agencies that are not captured by searches of FEC records. Therefore, the DCNF survey results are likely to significantly underestimate total donations.

Donors who reported being retired were excluded from the DCNF analysis. (Related: Biden is close to setting a new record — more government jobs than ever)

Support for the Democratic Party among bureaucrats is even more pronounced in organizations that represent bureaucrats.

The American Federation of Government Employees is a labor union representing 750,000 workers in “substantially every agency of the federal government and the Washington, D.C., government.” according to Go to that website. His PAC for this organization has given him $278,000 so far during the 2024 election cycle, 93.9% of which he has given to Democrats. according to Go to OpenSecrets.

National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees; defender We run a PAC on behalf of current and former federal employees and their families. donated Candidates received $153,000 during the 2024 cycle, 76.5% of which went to Democrats.

The disproportionate support for Democrats among federal bureaucrats is not new. Of the approximately $2 million that federal employees donated to presidential campaigns in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, about 95% went to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. according to To The Hill.

Even as President Trump took control of the executive branch in the run-up to the 2020 election, donations from federal employees showed a similar bias against Democrats. From January 2019 to October 2020, then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden collected $1.06 million from federal employees, while Trump collected $743,000. according to to government officials.

Biden has repeatedly given federal employees historic raises after receiving high levels of financial support during his 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns.

Mr. Biden has a friendly relationship with federal officials, but Mr. Trump was not so friendly.former president regularly He accused the “deep state” — a term some people use to refer to stereotyped members of the federal bureaucracy — of interfering with his policies.

Some federal officials have boasted of working against the president, going so far as to: author Anonymous New York Times article about it.

Not all agencies were as uniform as others in employee contributions.

Department of Defense (DOD) employees, including military personnel, were the most Republican in terms of political contributions.

Mr. Trump and Republicans collected about $67,000 from Pentagon officials, far more than the $20,632 raised by Mr. Biden and Democrats, FEC records show. The bulk of the federal employee contributions that President Trump and Republican lawmakers received came from the Department of Defense.

Trump's lead was even larger among individuals working in each branch of the military.

Individuals working in the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard contributed about $62,000 to Trump's fundraising committee, but only about $24,000 to Biden's. I didn't.

The Biden administration has expressed concern about the ideology of those who work at the Pentagon and serve in the military.

Biden's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin took the lead Efforts to purge “extremism” from the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense in 2021, immediately after taking office.conservative critic characteristic This effort was undertaken as a ploy to remove center-right figures from the military and the Pentagon.

A Pentagon investigation found that the effort may have worsened morale within the military.

Contributions from employees of the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, States, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. Gold was included in DCNF's FEC analysis. record.

“The State Department is committed to advancing the national interest in a nonpartisan manner,” a State Department spokesperson told DCNF.

“All employees are prohibited by law from engaging in partisan political activity while on the job or in the federal workplace, and employees may not use their positions or official authority to influence the outcome of an election. “is not available,” they continued.

With the exception of the State Department, none of the agencies mentioned responded to DCNF's requests for comment.

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