American elections have been subject to years of scrutiny. Something has to give.
And now a GOP Senator introduced a bill that changes U.S. elections for good.
Crackdown on Sneaky Foreign Cash in U.S. Elections
In a much-needed strike against shadowy overseas meddling, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and seven fellow Republican senators unveiled tough new legislation to slam the door on foreign donors secretly bankrolling American election schemes.
This bill finally closes loopholes that let anti-American billionaires buy influence while hiding behind “intermediaries.”
“After years of hysteria over Russiagate and alleged foreign influence in American elections, it turns out Democrats have recently benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in election-related contributions from a shadowy foreign billionaire,” Hagerty said to the New York Post in a statement.
“This type of influence undermines democracy and self-government here in America, and its staggering scope should be alarming,” he continued, adding that his “legislation that will put an end to covert foreign influence on our elections and protect Americans’ voice in electing their leaders.”
Exposing the Swiss Billionaire’s Dark Money Pipeline
Hagerty’s Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act zeros in on crafty workarounds that skirt bans on direct foreign campaign donations.
Chief target: Swiss left-wing tycoon Hansjorg Wyss, whose Wyss Foundation funnels fortunes through the Berger Action Fund into the massive liberal dark money machine known as the Sixteen Thirty Fund—or “Families Over Billionaires.”
This network has unleashed “paid media, rapid response, surrogate operations, and grassroots mobilization” to sabotage President Trump’s agenda, including his landmark One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Records expose over $280 million from Berger Action Fund flooding into Sixteen Thirty Fund alone.
The foreign cash trail doesn’t stop there—Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers just sued Wyss and six of his backed groups for pouring money into ballot initiative committees.
Hagerty’s bill, reintroduced from last year, outright bans foreign nationals from funding get-out-the-vote drives, state ballot measures, ballot harvesting, or party-boosting communications. It also blocks donations to any “conduits” that redirect the cash into U.S. elections, with built-in protections against abusive federal overreach, like petitioning to quash biased subpoenas.
Bipartisan Backing to Put America First
The measure boasts rock-solid GOP support from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Budd (R-NC), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-La.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.).
“Only Americans should get to participate in American elections — duh,” Kennedy stated. “The Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act would safeguard our electoral system from Chinese Communist Party-linked actors and anti-American foreign billionaires trying to game our democratic process.”
House Committee on Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) is gearing up to drop companion legislation in the lower chamber, timing TBD. “There is no place for foreign influence in American elections,” Steil stated. “By eliminating the potential for foreign nationals to fund elections operations we are one step closer to securing our democratic process.”
