WASHINGTON – The Swiss billionaire has denounced plans to bring his money to pop-up progressive advocacy groups, claiming to support “working families” and expand President Trump's tax cuts as a giveaway to ultra-rich.
The over billionaires family, launched when Trump returned to the White House in January, were founded as temporary entities against an extension of Trump's Signature 2017 Tax Act, but its “eight-figure” fundraising campaign is supported by extremely wealthy people through an array of pass-through organizations.
That's because fledgling families do it for billionaires There's no even a donation option on the website For the public, it is actually a product name of 16 30 funds of large liberal dark money, according to business records filed in Washington, DC.
16 of 30 It received $280 million from the WYSS Foundation. The WyssFoundation is a charity of Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss 89, past reports and disclosures from its affiliates.
Wyss also sent around $34.5 million to 16 30 funds through another of his charities, the Berger Action Fund, according to a 2023 tax return revealed by the Watchdog Group Americans for Public Trust.
“The family that exceeds billionaires are just the front group of 30 funds of Dark Money Behemoth 16,” an American at Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Public Trust, told the Post.
“It's the pinnacle of irony that a group that has received at least $280 million from foreigners is trying to brand themselves as fighting for American families.”
The fledgling group intends to use “paying media, quick response, proxy operations, grassroots mobilization” to send messages. press release Beware while Congressional Republicans draft Trump's marquee tax laws.
Wyss is a top Democrat backer, and his fate comes from mainly the medical device manufacturer company Synthes, which he sold to Johnson & Johnson over a decade ago.
Because of Swiss citizenship, he is not legally permitted to donate to US political candidates, but did so between 1990 and 2006 while avoiding prosecution. Associated Press.
Recently, WYSS can bypass rules aimed at thwarting foreign influence in US elections by sending cash to the Dark Money Group.
Wyss' two main measures are to put hundreds of millions of dollars into left-wing causes. These are the Wyss Foundation and the Berger Action Fund.
Together, these two groups spent some around $5 million Caused by the left in the US.
Much of his money has flowed to organizations such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund and The New Venture Fund, which are part of the Dark Money Network run by Arabella Advisors.
Part of the Giants Arabella Advisor
Arabella Advisors, which runs six nonprofits across the consulting network, including 16 of 30 (its main political divisions), was founded in 2005 and has quietly poured billions of dollars into left-wing causes for a long time.
“They have created a deliberately complex web of interrelated organizations that support anti-scholarship beliefs and call themselves grassroots, but they actually help to integrate the powers into the hands of several influential individuals.” I told the Free Pressfirst reported on the relationship between Arabella's network and the billionaire family.
Its structure means that DC-based Arabella Advisors don't have to leak donors, but the group is known to have raked incredible amounts of cash with a vast network of progressive groups. Includes $1.3 billion in 2023.
Millionaire George Soros, Pierre Omidia, Bill Gates Reid Hoffman also publishes millions of donations to the network.
Pose as a grassroots
The product names for families beyond billionaires are detailed in corporate documents, but the group on its website portrays its status as a grassroots organization that enjoys support from trade unions.
Among the commonly listed groups The website as a partner is inseparableanother pop-up group that accused Republicans of packing recent city halls in opposition to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) budget trimming and federal workforce reduction efforts.
Individual, that I'm enjoying Soros' fundsIt began around the time of Trump's first election victory in 2016, organised protests in a deep red state like Montana Like the swing state of the election Georgia.
Additionally, influential unions such as the National Education Association (NEA) and the United Nations of Service Employees (SEIU) are listed as partners.
The billionaire family held it First demonstration Last month, the U.S. Capitol condemns House Republicans' efforts to pass border security, energy reform and tax cuts to the law through a process known as budget adjustments.
The group also denounced Doge's efforts to eradicate government bloating, ranking unions representing government employees.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to spend this money on giving taxes to billionaires rather than helping seniors get social security checks on time,” the group cheated on social media earlier this month.
The group's early social media accounts post various memes and other attacks on Trump and Republicans that are ripped into billionaires.
“In 2017, Trump and Republicans in Congress passed record-breaking taxes for billionaires and large corporations,” the group was also boosted by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in a January 30 Facebook post.
“Now they're doubled and suggesting even more extreme handouts for those on top, and they want to make you pay for it.”
16 30 funds have 20 active product names listed in the company declaration to Washington, DC.
Another of the 16 30 products listed in “The Payback” listed in the corporate document claims to be partners of over billionaires family members.
“We are proud to partner with over billionaires families to hold leaders accountable in the 2025 tax debate,” wrote The Payback in January on X.
Like billionaires' families, the recall that enjoys billionaires' fundraising is becoming a champion against businesses and claims to be “scamming our tax system.”
The post reached out to both 16 30 funds and over billionaires families for comments.
