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The United Auto Workers union has given nearly $100 million in political spending since 2017, with a significant amount going to leftist groups and causes, according to an exclusive report from the American Accountability Foundation. The findings should be a wake-up call for Republicans who have sided with the union in the past.<\/p>\n

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The report illustrates UAW\u2019s left-leaning political spending, its endorsement of \u201cradical Democratic Socialist candidates,\u201d its leadership\u2019s far-left agenda, and its continuous smearing of MAGA Republicans and the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cUAW has betrayed its members, positioned itself as the primary union antagonist to the Trump administration, wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, lined their own pockets, all while funding Democratic institutions, candidates, and organizations,\u201d claims AAF. <\/p>\n

Beyond the Democrat-biased political donations, UAW \u201cgoes out of its way to endorse radical Democratic Socialist candidates which stand against everything the Trump administration is trying to do,\u201d AAF claims. \u201cThese candidates oppose commonsense immigration enforcement, want to \u2018transition\u2019 minors, and endorse a whole host of other leftist positions. UAW is happy to throw their lot in with them, alongside mainstream Democrats who endorse similar positions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the candidates endorsed by the union are New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York State Rep. and self-described \u201cproud democratic socialist\u201d Claire Valdez, and many other members of the Democratic Socialists of America, according to the report. UAW officially endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024, and the union has never endorsed a Republican president or presidential nominee in its ninety-one year history.<\/p>\n

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UAW even endorsed Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who fantasized about assassinating a Republican colleague and wished death upon his children, as reported by The Federalist in 2025.<\/p>\n

The report also claims that Shawn Fain, president of United Auto Workers, is an \u201coutspoken critic of capitalism,\u201d who champions the \u201ceat the rich\u201d slogan and tours with leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., while claiming that billionaires \u201cdon\u2019t have the right to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Fain took over in 2023, UAW leadership was not much better. According to The New York Times, \u201cone executive spent $2 million in embezzled funds on gambling, cocaine and fancy cars,\u201d and another scandal involved leadership spending $1 million of union funds on luxury \u201cretreats.\u201d The federal government won seventeen convictions in a 2020-2021 corruption probe, including one against former UAW President Gary Jones.<\/p>\n

Despite the reported corruption and left-wing activism, AAF claims that UAW still has many Republican members who have been \u201cbetrayed\u201d by the leadership using their membership dues to support causes they oppose. <\/p>\n

\u201cDespite many of their members being MAGA supporters, UAW has frequently opined on issues painting themselves as anti-capitalist, pro-DEI, supporters of mass immigration and as ideologically aligned with the Pro-Palestine movement,\u201d AAF claims. <\/p>\n

UAW did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment about their political spending and endorsements.<\/p>\n

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In recent years, while UAW was apparently propping up leftist\u00a0candidates and causes, Republicans like JD Vance and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have backed UAW\u2019s members and, in Hawley\u2019s case, collaborating with its leadership.<\/p>\n

Though Vance has criticized Fain\u2019s opposition to the Trump Administration, he has supported UAW workers\u2019 \u201ctotally reasonable\u201d efforts to force their employers to drastically increase wages, even visiting picket lines at a 2023 UAW strike in Toledo and promising he would be their advocate in Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to show some support for the UAW workers out here on strike,\u201d Vance told the striking workers. \u201cTheir message is pretty simple, and I hear it loud and clear, which is, \u2018look, 10 years ago the auto industry was in a state of crisis. We took it on the chin. We accepted lower wages so the industry could prosper. Now that the industry is prospering, it\u2019s fair for us to share in some of the gain.\u2019 I think it\u2019s totally reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Vance joined the Republican ticket in 2024, UAW attacked him as a \u201cmenace to the working class\u201d and condemned his partnership with \u201cjob-killer-in-chief\u201d Donald Trump as a threat to American jobs.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Vance traveled to Bay City, Michigan, where he spoke about restoring American manufacturing and the Trump Administration\u2019s plan to invest in \u201cAmerican jobs and American workers and American businesses.\u201d He was greeted by hundreds of people who had gathered to protest at the local UAW with signs reading \u201cFascists not welcome in Michigan,\u201d \u201cVance your[sic] not welcome here,\u201d and \u201cVance: Domestic Enemy #2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawley offered his support to UAW workers in strikes in 2022 and 2023. In 2025, Hawley reportedly met with Shawn Fain to discuss \u201cworking together on pro-labor priorities,\u201d and Fain \u201cseemed at pains to dispel\u201d the suggestion that UAW directly supports Democrats.<\/p>\n

Hawley and Vance backed one UAW strike against General Motors in which the union sought a forty percent pay raise and a thirty-two-hour work week in which workers would still be paid for forty hours, which is a proposal shared by the Democratic Socialists of America platform.<\/p>\n

Vance and Hawley did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment about where they each stand on the UAW in light of AAF\u2019s finding that the union spent millions of dollars backing Democrats.<\/p>\n

Republicans like Vance and Hawley oppose big manufacturers offshoring American jobs, and they oppose \u201cgreen\u201d policies by the federal government that they claim make the lives of workers more difficult. They may not promote UAW\u2019s leftist advocacy, but, as the AAF report makes clear, Republicans run the risk of betraying their own constituents when they flirt with labor unions that not only double as Democrat laundering organizations but also seek to wage an \u201call-out war\u201d against conservative values.<\/p>\n

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