Koch Network Plans to Spend $400 Million in U.S. Midterm Cycle
- Spending will be about 60% more than 2015-16 election outlays
- Conservative network ready to take on an ‘energized’ left
The 2018 midterms look good for Democrats
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The conservative political network led by billionaires Charles and David Koch plans to spend close to $400 million on policy and politics during the two-year election cycle that culminates with November’s midterm elections, a roughly 60 percent increase over 2015-16.
That will include as much as $20 million in 2018 to sell to voters the Republican tax cuts signed in December by President Donald Trump, about the same amount Koch-affiliated groups spent on promoting the legislation in 2017, officials with the Koch network said Saturday.