Prescription Politics
This week we published the first story in our “Prescription Politics” series, a deep dive into the drug industry’s 2020 campaign donations. Our exclusive analysis shows that major pharmaceutical industry groups have already contributed about $11 million to political groups this cycle, and STAT’s incredible new data-visualization tool allows you to sort through every check they’ve cut, mapping the fundraising flow by lawmaker or by company.
Among the most striking findings: It’s not just high-rollers like Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who are cashing in. Despite the aggressively anti-pharma environment and years of aggressive drug industry criticism, more than two-thirds of Congress has cashed a check this cycle from a drug manufacturer PAC.
Pharmaceutical industry groups seem to be placing their bets on the Senate, in particular: Among the top 15 recipients of industry cash, seven are Republican senators up for re-election in November — people like McConnell and Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), John Cornyn (Tex.), and Cory Gardner (Colo.). And while industry groups tended to favor the GOP, they spread their money relatively evenly, directing 53.5% of funds to Republicans and 46.6% to Democrats.
The biggest drug industry contributors were Pfizer, whose PAC has cut 548 individual checks, followed by Amgen and Merck. Please take some time today to read my full analysis, conceived and overseen by ace editor Erin Mershon, and play around with STAT contributor Kaitlyn Bartley’s incredible data-visualizations: It’s all right here.
Among the most striking findings: It’s not just high-rollers like Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who are cashing in. Despite the aggressively anti-pharma environment and years of aggressive drug industry criticism, more than two-thirds of Congress has cashed a check this cycle from a drug manufacturer PAC.
Pharmaceutical industry groups seem to be placing their bets on the Senate, in particular: Among the top 15 recipients of industry cash, seven are Republican senators up for re-election in November — people like McConnell and Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), John Cornyn (Tex.), and Cory Gardner (Colo.). And while industry groups tended to favor the GOP, they spread their money relatively evenly, directing 53.5% of funds to Republicans and 46.6% to Democrats.
The biggest drug industry contributors were Pfizer, whose PAC has cut 548 individual checks, followed by Amgen and Merck. Please take some time today to read my full analysis, conceived and overseen by ace editor Erin Mershon, and play around with STAT contributor Kaitlyn Bartley’s incredible data-visualizations: It’s all right here.
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