Latest financial disclosure from Bowman’s Built to Win PAC shows $3k on hand, $47k in debts
It’s a PAC of lies.
Former congressman Jamaal Bowman left Congress claiming he had received commitments “in the millions” for his new Built to Win PAC, but his most recent federal financial disclosures show him well short of that effort.
During the first six months of 2025, Built to Win only managed to raise $132,529.03, Federal Election Commission records show. As of July 30, its cash on hand sat at just $3,125.68. Its debts are 15 times higher: They sit at $47,007.38, money that is mostly owed to various law firms, the filing shows.
Bowman’s PAC spent only about $1,100 supporting actual candidates. A thousand went to his house squad colleague, Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.). An additional $103.48 went to New Rochelle school board candidate Rosa Rivera-McCutchen, who lost.
Bowman, a far-left Democrat from Yonkers, New York, was bounced out of the House following a contentious Democratic primary in June 2024. During his brief tenure, he became known for his outspoken opposition to Israel—and for deliberately pulling a fire alarm in the U.S. Capitol complex, which led to him being censured and fined $1,000.
After being ousted, Bowman vowed he would harness “grassroots” energy to become a powerful outside political force.
“We cannot only engage in organizing during the election cycle,” the ex-lawmaker told City and State in February. “We have to engage in organizing consistently throughout the year, so people know that we’re not (just) there for their vote. We are there to support them, to empower them, in any way that we can.”
On its website, Built to Win vowed that, “from Yonkers to Gaza,” it would “exponentially increase voter turnout among disengaged communities, dismantle corporate control over our democracy, and elect leaders who fight for us—not for billionaires and special interests.”
Far from grassroots, however, $53,000 of Bowman’s meager haul came from funds transferred from his own “Bowman for Congress” campaign committee. The Squad Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee affiliated with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), kicked in another $7,100, Federal Election Commission records show.
The PAC’s individual donors included Anas Shallal, a progressive restaurant owner in Washington, D.C., and Kimberlé Crenshaw, a UCLA professor and the creator of the academic discipline of critical race theory.
“It’s certainly not a bad time to be a Democrat and ask people for money,” Ryan Adams, who served as Bowman’s director of digital organizing during his 2020 campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon. “So the failure of this now in this moment is not good.”
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