Trump Super PAC Files $10 Million FEC Expenditure to Support Ken Paxton Texas Senate Bid

The nine-figure commitment represents the largest single-race outlay by the committee this cycle, intensifying a Republican primary contest that will shape the Senate map in November.

President Donald Trump's super PAC has disclosed a $10 million expenditure in support of Republican Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate campaign in Texas, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission reported by Bloomberg. The committee described the Texas outlay as its largest single expenditure of the current election cycle.

The FEC filing, which is a public record available through the commission's disclosure portal, identifies the spending as an independent expenditure in support of Paxton. Independent expenditures are funds spent by outside groups to expressly advocate for or against a candidate, without direct coordination with the candidate's campaign under federal law.

Paxton, who served as Texas Attorney General from 2015 through early 2025, is seeking the U.S. Senate seat in a race that national observers have identified as competitive at the primary level within the Republican Party. The Texas Senate contest was previously noted as one of several high-profile races drawing national funding attention, as covered by The Congressional Times.

Super PACs, legally classified as independent expenditure-only committees following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's 2010 ruling in SpeechNow.org v. FEC and the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision the same year, may raise and spend unlimited sums from corporations, unions, and individuals, provided they do not contribute directly to or coordinate with a candidate's campaign.

The $10 million figure, as stated in the FEC filing, is drawn from the committee's disclosed financial records. The precise form of the expenditure, whether television advertising, direct mail, digital advertising, or a combination, was not specified in the Bloomberg report. The FEC filing itself, which is the controlling public document, would itemize those expenditure categories. The Congressional Times has not independently reviewed the underlying filing at the time of publication.

Texas has not elected a Democrat to a statewide office since 1994, according to Texas Secretary of State election records. The state's two current Republican senators are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Paxton is competing in the Republican primary rather than a general election matchup at this stage of the cycle, making the super PAC's involvement notable as an intraparty signal of preferred candidates.

Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in May 2023 on articles including bribery, abuse of office, and obstruction of justice, according to the Texas House Journal. The Texas Senate acquitted him on all articles in September 2023 following a trial, as recorded in the Texas Senate Journal. He subsequently won re-election as Attorney General before transitioning to the Senate race.

No Democratic Senate candidate for Texas has been identified in the Bloomberg report or in FEC filings reviewed at the time of publication. The general election environment in the state will depend on which candidates clear their respective primaries. The Congressional Times will report on opposing candidates and their disclosed fundraising totals as FEC filings become available.

For comparison, outside spending in Texas Senate races has historically reached significant totals. In the 2018 Texas Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke, outside groups disclosed more than $35 million in combined independent expenditures, according to FEC records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, now known as OpenSecrets.

What remains unknown is the specific breakdown of how the $10 million will be allocated across media markets and advertising formats. The FEC's itemized disbursement records for the committee, updated on a rolling basis, would provide that detail. It is also unknown whether additional outside groups have filed competing expenditures in the Texas race at this time. A search of the FEC's independent expenditure database, publicly accessible at fec.gov, would answer both questions.