More U.S. companies announced Monday that they will suspend their donations to Republican lawmakers who this week tried to curb Joe Biden’s confirmation as the next president or paralyze him in general after the Capitol assault by supporters of Donald Trump.
The Marriott hotel chain, the medical insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield and the banking group Commerce Bancshares, which announced the measure over the weekend, were joined today by others such as Dow, Morgan Stanley and Boston Scientific, which will no longer provide funds to congressmen and senators who voted against the certification of the November presidential results.
AT&T, Mastercard and American Express also reported similar measures on Monday, according to Forbes magazine.
Meanwhile, other large companies – including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs – have decided to temporarily abandon all their political contributions in response to the situation in the country.
So will Ford, Coca-Cola or BlackRock, as well as internet giants Facebook and Microsoft, according to The New York Times.
Meanwhile, others like Bank of America, FedEx and Wells Fargo have said they are looking at what to do.
In recent hours, there has been a steady stream of companies that have chosen to stop contributing to political campaigns in view of the assault on the Capitol, some of them with harsh messages of condemnation of the facts and against those who, like outgoing President Donald Trump, instigated protests over an alleged election fraud of which there is no evidence.
Numerous business leaders, including some close to Trump himself and who have supported him in recent years, have criticized the president’s attitude these days.
Business donations to political candidates are very common in the United States, and in general, with them companies seek to advance their interests, supporting options they believe can defend views that benefit them.
Most are channeled through so-called Political Action Committees (PACs), groups that organize to raise and spend funds in support of candidates.