Teamsters pour money into GOP, shifting away from Dems

[In It to Win It]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/teamsters-donations-00502709

It wasn’t just 2024: the Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is signaling a more permanent realignment by donating to battleground Republicans in the upcoming midterms.

For the second year in a row, the labor union’s political arm donated to the Republicans’ House campaign arm after nearly two decades of mostly backing Democrats. The labor union’s D.R.I.V.E political action committee — Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education — gave the National Republican Congressional Committee $5,000 in the second quarter.

In addition to giving to the NRCC, Teamsters doled out a combined $62,000 in contributions to nearly two-dozen GOP congressional candidates, including in significant battleground districts:

Rob Bresnahan, Mike Kelly and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer of Minnesota
Nicole Malliotakis, Andrew Garbarino, Nick LaLota and Mike Lawler of New York
Jefferson Shreve of Indiana
Dave Taylor, Bob Latta, Michael Rulli and Dave Joyce of Ohio
Jeff Van Drew and Chris Smith of New Jersey
David Rouzer of North Carolina
Tom Barrett of Michigan
Blake Moore of Utah
Darin LaHood and Mike Bost of Illinois
Troy Nehls of Texas
Vern Buchanan of Florida

The group also gave this year to GOP Sens. Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Jon Husted of Ohio, and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania.
And it’s not just Congress: the Teamsters’ political arm donated $50,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association this past June.

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[a kennedy]

1. Ah fawk em......and Sean O'Brien too....

[lame54]

2. Sean O'Brien is a fascist loving coward

[Celerity]

9. yep

'Democrats and AOC No Longer Represent Working People' | Teamsters President Sean O'Brien

[dem4decades]

3. Do the teamsters think they're not going to be replaced by driverless trucks?

Fuck them.

[msongs]

4. teamsters have a long and public history. union bosses share trump family values nt

[aeromanKC]

5. I've worked with Teamsters They were low information MAGAt's.

It sucked having to call them fellow Union members. They were NOT!!

[Blue Owl]

6. Well they won't be union members for long

They’ll be conned and Donned like every other stupid fuck who buys what the GOP is selling

[Baitball Blogger]

7. The extortion is working.

[Cha]

8. Oh That will Help Them! Are they Stupid?

[Emile]

10. Sad, we need to get the voters back.

[dalton99a]

11. Biden made a horrible mistake.

[NickB79]

12. I'm a Teamster

This fucking sucks.

[DBoon]

13. Weren't the Teamsters big supporters of Richard Nixon?

Way back in the 20th century?

[JI7]

14. Reagan also. Male dominated unions have usually been right wing leaning

[DBoon]

15. White male dominated unions

I don't recall the UAW doing anything similar

It's usually the old Samuel Gompers craft unions that have been right wing. The CIO industrial unions that came out of the 1930s were strong supporters of Democrats.

[JI7]

17. Right, white male dominated

[valleyrogue]

16. Maybe he was coerced into it.

He might not want to be another Jimmy Hoffa, Sr.

[JI7]

18. No, he is just a right wing asshole

[Orrex]

19. They got theirs, so why should they care about anyone else?