By Fredreka Schouten, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s super PAC raised $177 million during the first half of the year and entered July with nearly $200 million in available cash to help shape the 2026 midterm elections.

The war chest held by Trump’s organization, MAGA Inc., is unrivaled for a president who cannot seek another term in office, and it reflects the aggressive fundraising by Trump and his team since he’s returned to office.

Donors included billionaire Wall Street trader Jeffrey Yass at $16 million; cosmetic heir Ronald Lauder, who donated $5 million; and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen, who gave $3 million.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote a $5 million check on June 27, the same day he made $5 million donations each to two super PACs aimed at helping Republicans retain their US House and Senate majorities. Just three days later, Musk and Trump reignited their feud over the president’s policy megabill, which Musk criticized as “insane.”

MAGA Inc.’s filings late Thursday with the Federal Election Commission also show corporate interests writing big checks to back Trump’s political ambitions.

They include a total of $25 million from Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer and its executive chairman Kelcy Warren, and $5 million from UnitedHealthCare.

The donor list also includes Florida businesswoman Elizabeth Fago, who gave $1 million to Trump’s super PAC on April 3, just weeks before the president granted a pardon to her son, Paul Walczak, the filings show.

Walczak, a nursing home executive, pleaded guilty to tax crimes in 2024, and Trump’s pardon on April 23 spared him from serving an 18-month prison sentence and repaying more than $4 million in restitution.

The New York Times first reported Fago’s attendance at a fundraising dinner for the super PAC.

Fago, Walczak and Walczak’s lawyer did not immediately respond to CNN’s inquiries Friday, nor did the White House. In a statement to the Times for its May story, a White House official said that Walczak had been targeted by the Biden administration because of his family’s conservative politics.

The $196 million in MAGA Inc.’s cash reserves far exceeds what other super PACs active in Republican politics had available at the end of June and positions Trump to have an outsize influence on GOP primaries.

A group affiliated with MAGA Inc., already has begun to spend heavily against Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who opposed the president’s domestic policy legislation and has bucked him on foreign policy.

CNN’s Alex Leeds Matthews contributed to this report.

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