In the 11 months since President Donald Trump began his second term in January 2025, the Republican National Committee has spent at least $796,513 at hotels and golf resorts bearing his name, while MAGA Inc., his super PAC, has spent about $60,733, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission records.
Together, the RNC and MAGA Inc. have routed $857,246 to Trump-owned properties, making up a large share of the $1.1 million that GOP candidates and party organizations have directed to his businesses so far this year. In total, 73 Republican campaigns and committees have paid Trump enterprises, with spending that ranges from small charges to six-figure amounts for major events.
The single biggest payment occurred on May 2, when the RNC spent $307,202.49 on an event at Trump’s golf resort in Doral, near Miami’s airport. Two months earlier, on March 5, the committee paid $193,145.70 for an event at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
MAGA Inc. reported spending $20,711.84 on May 30 at Trump’s golf course in Sterling, Virginia. Individual Republican committees added to the total with their own payments, ranging from relatively small sums to more than a thousand dollars each.
Channeling party money into Trump’s own companies continues a pattern he established during his first term. Back then, his Washington, D.C., hotel took in substantial amounts from Republican candidates and party groups. Trump eventually sold that hotel after he lost reelection and its business dropped off sharply.
Jordan Libowitz, communications director for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, condemned the spending trend. “When Trump pulls in tens of millions of dollars from crypto deals, it’s easy to overlook the hundreds of thousands he siphons from his political operation, but those amounts add up,” he said.
Libowitz stressed that donors originally gave this money to help elect candidates and advance a specific political agenda. He warned that if there is no limit to how far Trump will go in using the presidency to enrich himself, there may be no limit to how much of the country could effectively be put up for sale.
These financial details emerge as Trump’s job approval has fallen to about 36 percent, according to a Gallup poll conducted November 3-25, 2025. That is the lowest level of his second term and follows three months during which his ratings had been relatively steady.
Support for Trump within the Republican Party has slipped to 84 percent, his weakest showing among GOP voters in his second term. Among independents, only 25 percent now say they approve of the way he is handling his job.
Gallup conducted the survey while a federal government shutdown stretched into the longest in U.S. history, ending only on November 12, 2025. The polling period also coincided with off-year elections in which Democrats made gains.
Trump has openly used his position to promote his private business ventures in ways that differ from other recent presidents. He highlighted crypto meme coins at a White House dinner for major purchasers. His family’s cryptocurrency venture has pulled in large sums from token sales, with a significant portion of the money coming from foreign investors.
At the same time, Trump’s political fundraising network continues to chase small-dollar donations through a constant barrage of emails and text messages to supporters. His Never Surrender “leadership” PAC has raised $28.1 million, money he can largely spend as he sees fit, including on personal expenses.
The Never Surrender PAC leans heavily on small donors who respond to nonstop appeals. Recent messages have claimed that Trump attempted to call individual contributors, promised to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits, and asked recipients whether they love him.
Trump’s political position is also coming under pressure from within his own party. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has questioned whether he still embodies the “America First” agenda, criticizing his foreign travel and focus on international affairs. Trump withdrew his endorsement of Greene on Friday, November 14.
Once one of Trump’s staunchest allies, Greene has recast herself as a critic of his administration’s priorities and a defender of the “America First” vision she says the president has abandoned. She has voiced concern that Trump is prioritizing global issues over domestic needs.
Despite mounting controversies and falling approval ratings, Trump is barred by the Constitution from seeking another term after this one. Even so, his fundraising operation remains highly active, with multiple committees collecting millions from donors while steering hundreds of thousands of dollars back into his own business properties.