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How much did AIPAC PAC give to Nancy Pelosi in the 2018 2020 and 2022 cycles?
Executive Summary
The available records assembled here show a clear but incomplete picture: OpenSecrets-derived data indicates AIPAC PAC gave Nancy Pelosi $149,150 in the 2018 cycle, while the examined sources do not document specific AIPAC PAC contributions to Pelosi in the 2020 or 2022 cycles. The underlying sources include a 2019/2025 compilation of OpenSecrets pages and PAC contribution summaries that report AIPAC’s overall activity but fail to list Pelosi as a recipient for those later cycles [1] [2] [3]. This analysis explains the documented figure, the gaps in the public traces for 2020 and 2022, and the reasons why that absence does not necessarily prove zero contributions.
1. What the records actually state — a concrete 2018 figure and missing later-cycle entries
OpenSecrets’ PAC recipient lists, as summarized in the provided material, show Nancy Pelosi received $149,150 from AIPAC PAC in the 2018 cycle, a figure drawn from a PDF of pro‑Israel PAC contributions to 2019 congressional candidates and explicitly cited in the 2020 Victory Fund donor review [1]. The same assemblage of sources does not show AIPAC PAC among top donors for Pelosi’s 2020 Victory Fund nor does it list a specific AIPAC PAC amount for Pelosi in the 2022 cycle in the materials provided [1] [3]. The available AIPAC PAC profile shows totals by party for 2021–2022 but does not break those totals down to Pelosi in the supplied excerpts [2]. These gaps explain why only the 2018 figure appears with certainty.
2. Why later-cycle absence in these sources does not equal zero donations
A lack of an explicit entry in the sampled OpenSecrets pages and AIPAC PAC summaries can reflect data presentation choices, PAC naming conventions, candidate committee structures, or reporting categories, not necessarily the absence of contributions. The supplied campaign finance summary pages for Pelosi link to more detailed records but do not show every PAC for every cycle in the excerpts [3] [4]. AIPAC also operates multiple affiliated entities and spends via independent expenditures and lobbying that are tracked differently from PAC-to-candidate itemizations [5] [6]. Thus, while the provided records document $149,150 in 2018, they are insufficiently granular in the excerpts to assert a definitive zero for 2020 and 2022.
3. The broader AIPAC PAC activity and relevance to Pelosi’s receipts
The AIPAC PAC profile in the materials shows substantive giving patterns across cycles, with reported totals in the 2021–2022 period of over $2.6 million distributed between Democrats and Republicans, but the excerpted data does not allocate that sum to individual recipients like Pelosi [2]. Other OpenSecrets pages summarized in the packet note that Pelosi has historically been a recipient of substantial pro‑Israel interest group support overall — more than $618,000 aggregated in one cited summary — but those totals aggregate across groups and cycles without isolating AIPAC PAC’s contribution by year in the provided extracts [1]. The combined evidence therefore frames Pelosi as a frequent recipient of pro‑Israel-linked money while leaving cycle-by-cycle AIPAC PAC detail partly unresolved.
4. Source limitations, possible reporting lags, and alternative explanations
The materials supplied include dated pages and PDFs that vary in publication timestamp and scope; some entries are explicitly dated 2019 and 2025 while other extracts lack dates [7] [1] [2]. These mismatches create plausible reporting-lag and archiving problems: a donation may appear under different committee names, funnel through leadership PACs rather than the candidate committee, or be listed on a later consolidated report, none of which are visible in the snippets provided [8] [3]. The absence of 2020 and 2022 AIPAC PAC-to-Pelosi line items in these excerpts therefore warrants caution before drawing firm conclusions about those cycles.
5. Bottom line and how to close the remaining gaps
Based on the supplied documentation, AIPAC PAC contributed $149,150 to Nancy Pelosi in the 2018 cycle, and the provided sources do not show explicit AIPAC PAC amounts to Pelosi for the 2020 and 2022 cycles [1] [2]. To definitively confirm or refute contributions for 2020 and 2022, consult the complete OpenSecrets candidate contribution detail pages and the Federal Election Commission filings for Pelosi’s candidate and leadership PACs for those cycles, since those primary records list itemized PAC-to-candidate transfers and would resolve the current ambiguity stemming from the summarized excerpts [3] [4].