How will a recent Supreme Court ruling change the way millions raised at elite Hollywood events are actually spent?

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The money raised at events like Ossoff and Talarico’s Hollywood fundraiser can still go into their campaign committees as before, but a recent Supreme Court ruling means party committees can now spend unlimited sums in coordination with those candidates. In practice, that shifts more of the real spending power from loosely aligned outside groups toward official party organizations that can work directly with campaigns on ads, messaging and voter outreach. The ruling in NRSC v. FEC struck down federal caps on coordinated party expenditures. It did not remove the existing limits on what an individual can give directly to a candidate or to a party committee, and it did not change the ban on super PACs coordinating with candidates. Earmarking rules and disclosure requirements also remain in place. So the likely change is not that a $27,000 Hollywood ticket suddenly becomes unlimited money for a candidate. Rather, money raised through candidates, parties or joint fundraising structures can now be deployed more efficiently once it reaches party committees, because those committees are no longer bound by the old spending caps when they coordinate with nominees. For Senate races, that matters because the old coordinated spending limits had been significant but finite — in 2026, about $1.15 million in Georgia and about $3.15 million in Texas. Those ceilings are now gone. That means elite fundraisers may translate less into independent, legally firewalled spending and more into direct…

Ossoff, Talarico Host $27,000 Hollywood Fundraiser as Top Senate Democratic Money Raisers Team Up

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