George Soros is 95 years old, and he is not slowing down.
His allies told the press years ago that he had handed control of his political empire to his son Alex. Turns out that was only part of the story.
And George Soros just unleashed hell on Trump with this shock-and-awe onslaught.
The Number Is Staggering
Billionaire Democrat kingmaker George Soros spent a staggering $102.8 million in the midterm election cycle, reportedly making him the largest individual donor to date.
With the November elections still more than four months away, Soros could shatter his own spending record of $128 million set during the last midterms four years ago, when he was the biggest single donor. And the year is not close to over.
The news comes after it was reported in April that Soros kicked off his 2026 spending with $50 million. He has since more than doubled that figure, with months left to go before a single ballot is cast.
Where the Money Goes
Almost all of the money — $102 million — was funneled through the Democracy Political Action Committee, the super PAC Soros launched in 2020, which acts as the family’s main political arm.
But that is only what is visible.
Without counting the family’s main organization, the Open Society Foundation — which funds efforts to decriminalize drugs, open the border, and abolish the police — and its lobbying wing the Open Society Action Fund, which is even more obscure because it doesn’t have to disclose political spending since it’s registered as a nonprofit claiming to do mere advocacy work.
In previous election cycles, the Open Society Action Fund’s cash flowed to groups backing lefty stars like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), but its tax filings for 2025 aren’t yet available. So the full picture of what Soros spent this cycle may not be known until well after the votes are counted.
And separately, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations pledged $300 million toward initiatives it says will defend democratic rights and advance economic security in the U.S. over the next five years. That is on top of the $103 million already flowing through his super PAC. The total footprint of Soros money in American politics this cycle is almost impossible to fully track.
What Critics Are Saying
Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for Americans for Tax Reform, did not mince words.
“Money talks, and Soros money says the most insidious, unconstitutional, costly tax hikes in American history are on the table,” Kellogg said, adding that Soros is a “wannabe Bond villain,” responsible for the radical takeover of the Democrat Party.
That is a blunt assessment. But the spending numbers back it up.
The level of Soros’ expenditures signals that the 95-year-old leftist billionaire isn’t exactly riding off into the sunset for retirement despite formally handing control over his multibillion-dollar philanthropic empire to his more radical son Alex.
Think about what that means. The man who built his fortune betting against currencies and destabilizing financial markets is now the single biggest player trying to reshape the United States Congress into a body dominated by socialists. And he is doing it through a super PAC that can take unlimited money, with a shadow nonprofit network that doesn’t have to tell anyone where the dollars ultimately land.
This Is Not New — It’s Getting Worse
During the 2022 midterms, Soros also took the mantle as top dog in the political donor class by pouring over $178 million into blunting the GOP’s push to retake control of Congress with an electoral mandate.
He lost that fight. Republicans took the House anyway. But Soros did not walk away from the table. He doubled down.
Campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission, compiled by OpenSecrets, confirms that George Soros was the single largest individual donor in the 2022 elections, contributing $128,485,971, all of it going to Democrats.
And now he is on pace to top even that.
There is a certain irony in watching the Democrat Party — the party that spent years railing against billionaires and corporate money in politics — build its entire electoral strategy around one man’s checkbook. The same politicians who cheered for campaign finance reform and screamed about “dark money” have no complaints when the dark money flows their direction.
The Bigger Play
Soros money is not just about winning House and Senate seats. It is about permanently tilting the playing field.
Virginians for Fair Elections, a main group fighting to get Virginia voters to approve a ballot referendum that will allow the state to redraw its congressional maps, has been pumped with millions in cash from a web of George Soros-backed dark money groups and top Democrat Party officials.
Entities directly tied to Soros, or that obtained significant funding traceable back to the billionaire Democrat megadonor, rank second and third in total giving to the group. One of those groups, the Fund for Policy Reform Inc., was founded by Soros himself.
So the money goes into redistricting fights, into soft-on-crime prosecutors, into get-out-the-vote nonprofits that never have to disclose a dime. The super PAC is the tip of the iceberg.
The elder Soros has proven beyond any doubt that he has no intention of ceasing his attempts to buy political outcomes that comport with his utopian ideals.
President Trump won a landslide in 2024. Voters sent him to Washington with a clear mandate to cut spending, secure the border, and put American workers first. What Soros is doing right now — $103 million and counting — is a direct attempt to undo that mandate at the ballot box before the American people can see the results of what they voted for.
But here’s the thing about spending $128 million in 2022 and still losing the House: money doesn’t always win. The voters who sent Donald Trump back to the White House in 2024 didn’t do it because some billionaire outspent the other side. They did it because they were tired of exactly the kind of politics Soros has been funding for decades.
And they are still watching.
Sources: New York Post (Gabrielle Fahmy, Rich Calder, David Spector, June 27, 2026); Washington Post (June 25, 2026); NewsBusters (June 27, 2026); Newsweek (November 8, 2022); OpenSecrets.org; Federal Election Commission filings; Americans for Tax Reform.