THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Yakym's fundraising profile relies more heavily on individual donors (70 percent) than PACs and committees (30 percent), with $2.4 million in party and leadership support tracked separately. Industry-tied contributions show modest concentration in legal and lobbying services (14 percent of industry money), construction and engineering (9 percent), and tied contributions from insurance, health services, and securities sectors (7-8 percent each). Individual donors employed in law, securities, and automotive sectors represent the largest occupational groups among his non-PAC supporter base.
Raised · all cycles$8.9M▲ 245% in ’24 vs ’22#45 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share14%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes7on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Yakym (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Yakym voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 7 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Yakym's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$1.8M
RUDY VICTORY FUND
PAC
2$99K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE (AIPAC) PAC
PAC
3$62K
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
employees
4$60K
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC
PAC
5$48K
ROLLIE WILLIAMS
employees
COMMITTEES
Transportation and Infrastructure
Ways and Means
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Lloyd Smucker
R-PA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & EngineeringInsurance
Mike Carey
R-OH · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & EngineeringInsurance
Pablo José Hernández
D-PR · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & EngineeringInsurance
Nathaniel Moran
R-TX · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & EngineeringInsurance
W. Gregory Steube
R-FL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & EngineeringInsurance
Troy Balderson
R-OH · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & EngineeringInsurance