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Who is the committee’s reported treasurer?
LISKER, LISA is the treasurer listed for this political committee in the included FEC registration data.
This is the political committee’s treasurer—not necessarily the treasurer or finance director of an organization with a similar name. This record does not establish a current corporate or public-office appointment.
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through August 31, 2026.
Metric
Reported amount
What it means
Total receipts
$38,294,280.07
All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions
$350,000.00
Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions
$25,000.00
Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements
$33,936,704.95
All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees
$0.00
Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures
$32,518,094.42
Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand
$5,659,903.73
Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee
$0.00
Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.
Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.
Itemized political activity
Candidate giving and outside spending by DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS
FEC ITEMIZED DATA
The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.
Direct candidate contributions$0.000 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$60,290,954.80144 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$19,617,973.097 transactions
Source anomalies · 3 rows excluded from spending totals.
These rows exceed the amount threshold, conflict with the candidate’s reported office, or have no named spender in the connected FEC registry. Original amounts and identifiers remain available for review. This flag does not establish wrongdoing.
Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Oct 16, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.
Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures
How money moved through DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS
FEC ITEMIZED FILES
These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.
Reported operating-expenditure categories
FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.
1 published categories
Category not reported94 current organization-payment rows$1,418,210.53
Top organization payees in operating expenditures
Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.
Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.
Official registration
Committee details
2026 CYCLE
Committee type
Super PAC — independent expenditure-only · code O
Designation
Unauthorized committee · code U
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Treasurer
LISKER, LISA
Mailing address
228 S WASHINGTON ST, STE 115, ALEXANDRIA VA 22314
FEC committee ID
C00836221
How to read this page
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