Republicans rake in $24M for campaign arm as federal funding battle intensifies

FIRST ON FOX: The campaign arm of the House Republicans announced that it generated nearly $24 million in revenue from July to September of this year.

More than half of that — about $13.95 million — came in September, as Republicans prepared for a political messaging war over federal funding.

This fight is still ongoing for more than half of October now. The government was shut down for 20 days as Republicans and Democrats were still at odds over federal spending.

The National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) haul of $13.95 million marks its best September in a non-election year and represents a 50% increase over the previous comparable September in 2023.

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NRCC ends the third quarter with nearly $46 million in cash on hand and nearly $93 million in 2025 alone.

In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, NRCC Chairman Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., noted that House Republicans already voted to defund the federal government last month and announced that the GOP base is pushing his group forward ahead of the 2026 elections.

“House Republicans are firing on all cylinders. The majority of us have funded the federal government and we serve working families and have unstoppable momentum heading into 2026,” Hudson said.

“With President Trump leading and voters rallying behind our conservative agenda, we are raising record-breaking resources to keep the House of Representatives and grow our majority,” he said.

Representative Richard Hudson, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), speaks during Day 4 of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024. (Mike Segar/Reuters)

Republicans are fighting to retain the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections, which have historically been against the party in power. The GOP has held the House majority since 2023.

But while GOP leaders expressed confidence in their own agenda and the White House, they argued that the Democratic Party faced a lack of cohesion and that its policies were not approved by American voters.

The NRCC outpaced its counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), in the previous quarter of 2025, raising $32.3 million compared to the DCCC’s $29.1 million.

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DCCC ended the year with more cash on hand; but it was $39.7 million compared to NRCC’s $37.6 million.

Both groups and their allies spent much of October publicly fighting the government shutdown.

The government shut down because Congress could not reach an agreement on federal funding. (Getty Images)

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Republicans accuse Democrats of holding the federal government hostage by refusing to vote on the funding bill unless partisan health care demands are met.

Democrats, meanwhile, argued that Republicans were risking health care costs for millions of Americans by not including an extension of Obamacare subsidies during the COVID-19 pandemic, which would expire this year without congressional action.

The House passed a seven-week federal funding bill on Sept. 19, largely along party lines. But the bill has stalled in the Senate, where at least a few Democrats are needed to clear the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to break the filibuster.