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Money in politics

Lobbying

3,438 companies · $1.8B · 258 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
◆ $5K$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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