Mike Waltz: Follow the money

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Throughout his congressional career, Waltz’s campaigns received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the defense industry. Of his top 20 contributors, eight were companies related to the defense industry, and they contributed a total of $292,000 through individuals and political action committees. RTX Corp contributed $34,000, AT&T Inc (which has a defense-related division) $29,000, Northrop Grumman $27,500, Honeywell International $26,000 and Boeing Co $28,000 — all through PACs. General Dynamics contributed $26,000 through PACs and $11,850 through individuals, Sierra Nevada Corp gave $19,000 through PACs and $9,600 through individuals, and Total Military Management contributed $73,700 through individuals.

Waltz’s top contributors during the 2024 election cycle were the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, with $92,900 provided by individuals and $10,000 from political actions committees, Starkey Hearing Technologies ($19,800 through individuals and $2,500 through PACs), and the defense company General Atomics ($6,600 through individuals and $7,500 through PACs).

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In 2020, Waltz voted for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2021, which would prevent the president from withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan without congressional approval.]

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Shortly after Waltz's 2021 op-ed, The Intercept reported on his role in founding and managing a defense contracting company called Metis Solutions, which had landed contracts worth an accumulated $930 million in Afghanistan from the US government, largely in the area of training Afghan security forces.

As a result of PAE acquiring Metis in 2020, Waltz had personally realized capital gains in the range of $5-25 million, according to disclosure releases.

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Committee assignments For the 118th Congress:

Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Military Personnel
Subcommittee on Readiness (Chairman)
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific
Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittee on Central Intelligence Agency
Subcommittee on National Security Agency and Cyber

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After The Atlantic reported about the Signal chat, Waltz said regarding Goldberg: "I don't text him. He wasn't on my phone", but Goldberg "somehow gets on somebody's contact and then get sucked into this group"; Waltz also told the media regarding Goldberg: "I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else", raising the possibility that Goldberg "did it deliberately".

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Waltz told the media that "I take full responsibility. I built the group", then said: "We made a mistake. We’re moving forward".

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“I’m just not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz,” Jeffrey Goldberg told CBS News in an interview Wednesday.
When asked about the photos of him standing near Mike Waltz at an event in 2021, Goldberg said, “If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.”

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