Our world is being torn apart by war, catastrophic climate change, and pollution. Climate change causes and is caused by war, and vice versa. For many election cycles, Congressman Eliot Engel has accepted contributions from weapons manufacturers, builders of fossil fuel pipelines, builders of nuclear power plants, and major banks and Wall Street firms that fund climate destruction. As a member and currently the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over U.S. arms exports, Mr. Engel has accepted large donations, year after year, from Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Atomics, Boeing, the Teamsters, J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, as well as smaller banks.

Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing are some of the largest weapons manufacturers in the world. Accepting contributions from these merchants of war, in combination with his votes for the Iraq War and against withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, belies Mr. Engel's assertions that he is a peacemaker. In addition, these corporations' manufacturing operations have created Superfund sites, contaminated the land and groundwater in towns in Mr. Engel's own state of New York, and polluted the air in vast regions of our country. Their products and services prop up some of the most heinous regimes around the world that are guilty of mass atrocities against innocent civilians in their own and neighboring countries. These companies build nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon delivery systems.

General Atomics builds killer drones and nuclear power plants. Mr. Engel has accepted huge contributions from General Atomics despite his own public statements calling for the closure of the dangerous Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Westchester.

The Teamsters, unlike more progressive unions, have fought hard to build oil and gas pipelines across the United States like the Dakota Access Pipeline, resisted by the courageous Standing Rock Movement. Mr. Engel has accepted funding from the Teamsters despite asserting that he does not take money from the fossil fuel industry and that he is proud of his record of leadership on the climate crisis.

J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are heavily invested, through their loan and investment portfolios as well as direct financing, in the global fossil fuel industry. Chase Bank is the largest funder of fossil fuels and fossil fuel expansion in the world. Since the 2016 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Chase has provided $196 billion in finance for fossil fuels. Chase is the world's biggest banker of Arctic oil and gas, ultra-deepwater oil and gas, and the biggest U.S. banker of tar sands. Chase is the only bank financing all four key tar sands expansion companies.

War, nuclear weapons/energy, fossil fuel infrastructure construction, and mega banks and Wall Street firms underwriting the climate crisis have powered Congressman Engel's campaigns:

2020:

Northrop Grumman $7,500

J.P. Morgan Chase $3,800

Goldman Sachs $5,000

2018:

Northrop Grumman $10K

Lockheed Martin $10K

Raytheon $10K

General Atomics $10K

Teamsters $10K

2016:

Northrop Grumman $10K

Lockheed Martin $10K

Raytheon $10K

General Atomics $10K

Boeing $10K

2014:

Northrop Grumman $10K

Raytheon $10K

General Atomics $10K

Teamsters $10K

2010:

Raytheon $6,500

(Source: OpenSecrets.org)