For many years, Americans have been losing their trust in our government and feeling unheard by the people who are supposed to represent them.

In a recent poll, more than 8 in 10 U.S. adults agreed that “special interest groups and lobbyists have too much say in what happens in politics” and “the cost of political campaigns makes it hard for good people to run for office.”

These costs keep going up, partly because the anti-Palestinian group AIPAC keeps spending unprecedented amounts of money from its Trump-supporting donors. AIPAC and its PACs have already spent more than $100 million influencing 2024’s elections, including $30 million to make Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush’s Congressional primary elections the most expensive in U.S. history.

This influx of right-wing billionaire spending drowns out the voices of everyday voters and makes it virtually impossible for working-class candidates to run for office and win.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a proud co-sponsor of legislation to expand campaign finance reforms—including the Protecting Our Democracy Act to hold elected officials accountable and get dark money out of politics, the DISCLOSE Act of 2023 to require additional transparency in elections, and the Democracy for All Amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate campaign spending while encouraging public campaign financing.

Public trust in our government has dwindled due to corruption. It’s shameful that some of members of Congress are profiting financially when they vote to support wars and weapons manufacturing. That’s why Rashida introduced legislation to ban members of Congress from profiting off of war.