![]() ![]() security assistance and military sales and antisemitism. “The Open Society Policy Center is proud to stand with our grantees to advance voting rights and reproductive justice, to curb racial discrimination, and to protect the rights of trans people, immigrants, and so many others whose dignity and rights are under attack and being denied by new laws,” the spokesperson said, adding that Open Society Policy Center had given the ACLU a $5 million grant in furtherance of those priorities, and has worked to ensure the Inflation Reduction Act and other spending bills are implemented equitably, pushed for reforms to U.S. A spokesperson for the nonprofit, which brought in $196 million from a single anonymous donor in 2021, according to its most recent available tax filings, maintained that the group’s “lobbying for this quarter is comparable to our level of activity in the past,” and centered on a number of issues. Up until this year, Open Society Policy Center hadn’t had any in-house registered lobbyists since 2020, relying only on its outside firms the Raben Group and NVG, to whom it paid between $10,000 and $80,000 each quarter before parting ways in 20, respectively. That’s up from the nearly $1.6 million the group spent in the first quarter of 2023, but both numbers are a fraction of the organization’s all-time record of $24.1 million during the fourth quarter of 2019. The Open Society Policy Center reported dropping $8.4 million on federal lobbying from April through June. OPEN SOCIETY RAMPS UP LOBBYING: After several years of anemic spending, lobbying outlays by the advocacy arm of George Soros’ Open Society network began to pick back up over the first half of this year, according to reports filed for last week’s lobbying disclosure deadline. Soros nonprofit lobbying spending picks up ![]()
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