FEC Q3 reports confirm Musk's $158M to SLF, $82.8M cash to America PAC, $20M to CLF and $10M to Lone Star Liberty PAC; $74.8M more to America PAC Oct 6-14

The Q3 reports filed October 15, 2026 put Elon Musk’s own name on the contributions the New York Times reported from his representatives on October 12. In the Senate Leadership Fund’s Q3 report, Musk appears at $75 million on September 9 and $83 million on September 23, $158 million in all. In America PAC’s Q3 report he gave $82.8 million in cash between July 6 and September 28, plus about $6.07 million of in-kind support dated September 30 that the filing flags as a memo “partnership attribution”. The Congressional Leadership Fund’s report shows $20 million on September 4 and Lone Star Liberty PAC’s shows $10 million on August 21.

America PAC’s pre-general report (October 1-14, filed October 22) adds $12.6 million on October 6, $19.0 million on October 8 and $43.2 million on October 14, $74.8 million in cash in two weeks, most of it after the Times article ran. The Republican Governors Association’s $10 million and the Republican Attorneys General Association’s $2 million, in the Times list, are not FEC filings and are not checked here.

Dates are contribution dates in the filers’ itemized lines. The Times said America PAC got “over $76 million” this summer; the filing’s Q3 cash is $82.8 million. This entry does not explain the difference. Reconciliation with the $366 million cycle figure is in the research note 2026-10-26-musk-2026-cycle-giving-fec-reconciliation-america-pac-by-race-talarico-and-x-changes. The Times figures are at 2026-10-12–musk-276m-new-midterm-giving-since-july-366m-cycle-total-nyt; the SLF-to-Texas PAC pass-through is at 2026-09-09–slf-q3-report-shows-musk-75-million-and-83-million-passed-to-texas-pac.