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Money in politics

Lobbying

3,438 companies · $1.8B · 171 also fund a PAC

Companies don’t just donate — they hire lobbyists to push (or block) legislation. Federal law makes them disclose it. This ranks the companies and groups that spent the most lobbying Washington in 2025, drawn from Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Spend is the company’s total for the year across everything they lobbied on (the law doesn’t break it down per bill). The ◆ PAC column shows what the same company’s political action committee gives to candidates — the ones doing both, spending to shape laws and funding the people who write them, are worth a closer look.

Filtered to Defense & Aerospaceclear sector
#CompanySectorsPAC donationsLobbying spend
1201Maravai Intermediate
CA
$200K
1202Master Boat Builders
AL
$200K
1203Merlin
VA
$200K
1204Mexichem Fluor
MA
$200K
1205Michigan Wheel
MI
$200K
1206Mississippi State University
MS
$200K
1207Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials
PA
$200K
1208Mmv Medicines For Malaria Venture $200K
1209Monkton
VA
$200K
1210Moth+Flame
NY
$200K
1211National Audubon Society
DC
$200K
1212New American Industrial Alliance
DC
$200K
1213Next Defense Solutions
NJ
$200K
1214Nidec Americas
MO
$200K
1215Nlight
WA
$200K
1216North Carolina State Ports Authority
NC
$200K
1217North Dakota State University
ND
$200K
1218North Wind Test Llc (Fka Calspan Aero Systems Engineering Inc.)
MN
$200K
1219Noveon Magnetics
TX
$200K
1220Nyrstar Clarksville
TN
$200K
1221Ou Medicine
OK
$200K
1222Oxe Marine
GA
$200K
1223Pacific Defense
CA
$200K
1224Palantir
CO
$200K
1225Paramount Global (Formerly Viacomcbs Inc.)
DC
$15K$200K
1226Parker University
TX
$200K
1227Picerne Military Housing A/K/A Corvias
RI
$200K
1228Planet Labs Pbc (Formerly Planet Labs Federal Inc.)
DC
$200K
1229Port Of Seattle
WA
$200K
1230Printed Circuit Board Association Of America
VA
$200K
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