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Rebecca Bennett

Holds no public office. Her campaign describes her as a former Navy helicopter pilot, a member of the Air National Guard and a healthcare business leader. Campaign affiliation: Democratic.

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Background, stated goals, record, and money

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filing window and the reconciliation in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Rebecca Bennett

Background

  • Won the Democratic nomination on June 2, 2026 with 27,525 votes. New Jersey Division of Elections
  • Her campaign says she served more than 15 years in the Navy and the Air National Guard as a helicopter pilot, experimental test pilot and aircraft commander. Rebecca Bennett for Congress
  • Her campaign says she earned an MBA from Wharton and has since worked in health care, from startups to Fortune 50 companies. Her 2026 financial disclosure lists shares from exercised stock options in Midi Health Inc., a private company. Rebecca Bennett for Congress, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

What they say they want to do

  • Full restoration of the SALT deduction, more housing supply, paid family leave and funded elder care. Rebecca Bennett for Congress
  • Protection for people with pre-existing conditions and restored Medicaid and Medicare funding. Rebecca Bennett for Congress
  • A ban on members of Congress trading stocks, and campaign finance reform. Rebecca Bennett for Congress
  • A military prepared for cyber, drone and AI warfare, with China treated as the leading strategic threat. Rebecca Bennett for Congress
  • Investment in renewable energy and the Gateway Tunnel, and a modernised air traffic control system. Rebecca Bennett for Congress, Rebecca Bennett for Congress

What the official record shows

She has held no public office, so there are no votes or official acts to list. The state's official 2024 general election results do not list her. Her filed financial disclosures are used in the cards rather than here. New Jersey Division of Elections, New Jersey Division of Elections, Rebecca Bennett for Congress

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Leadership PACs 35 committees$106,500
Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 4 committees$73,214
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 13 committees$72,000
PAC - Qualified 11 committees$53,000
House 11 committees$17,000
Committees the FEC records no type for 5 committees$10,250
Labor Organization PACs 2 committees$7,500
Membership Organization PACs 4 committees$6,275
Party committees 1 committee$221

Source: Federal Election Commission

Money from committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of the contributing committee. Memo entries are left out because they restate money counted elsewhere. Each line's itemized rows add up to the campaign's own filed total for that line. The rows sum to 345,959.87 dollars, which is part of what the campaign raised and not its total. Donations individuals made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table.

Words and record

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Rebecca Bennett

Campaign money: corporate PACs

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign says she has not accepted any corporate PAC money, naming Palantir.

“Rebecca hasn't accepted a dime from corporate PAC money, including Palantir”

Source: Rebecca Bennett for Congress

What the record shows · Jun 30, 2026

Her committee's filings through June 30, 2026 list 111 line-11C receipts from other political committees (118 rows including memo entries). The FEC records none of the contributing committees as a corporation's PAC, and none is connected to Palantir. The committees are leadership PACs, other candidates' campaigns, ideological and hybrid PACs, and a few labour and membership-organisation PACs, plus a handful of state and local committees with no FEC number, among them a firefighters' union committee.

Sources: Federal Election Commission

Limit: "Corporate PAC" is read here as the FEC reads it: a PAC whose connected organisation is a corporation. Five contributors, all state or local committees with no FEC number, carry no committee type; none is named for a company. Donations from employees of a company are individual contributions and are outside this claim. Filings after June 30 have not been read.

Rebecca Bennett

Stock trading: divesting her own stocks

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign says she has divested from individual stocks and has called for a ban on congressional stock trading.

“she's divested from individual stocks and has called for a ban on congressional stock trading”

Source: Rebecca Bennett for Congress

What the record shows · May 5, 2025

Her candidate disclosure for January 1, 2024 to May 5, 2025, as amended on July 23, 2025 and again on May 15, 2026, lists 98 individual stocks in two retirement accounts and a brokerage account and values every one at None, so none was held on May 5, 2025. Her 2026 disclosure, whose period starts January 1, 2025, lists the same 98 at None and reports capital gains for 2025 on most of them, which places those sales between January and May 2025. What remains is funds, a savings account, a 529 plan, a rental house, and shares of Midi Health Inc., a private company, from exercised options the filing calls non-tradable. Her priorities page calls for a ban on members of Congress trading stocks.

Sources: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Rebecca Bennett for Congress

Limit: A disclosure is the filer's own sworn report, not an audit. Her original 2025 report, filed June 4, 2025, valued 91 of these stocks as still held on May 5, 2025; she amended it twice, and the amended report is used here. The reports give ranges and years, not sale dates. Most of the sales fall between January 1 and May 5, 2025; the rest could have been in 2024 or 2025. The private Midi Health shares are an individual company holding, though not a traded stock.

Rebecca Bennett

Investments: ICE contractors

Matches stated direction

What they say

Her campaign says she has never invested in or taken money from ICE contractors.

“Rebecca has never invested in or taken money from ICE contractors”

Source: Rebecca Bennett for Congress

What the record shows · May 5, 2025

Her disclosure for January 2024 to May 5, 2025 lists shares of General Dynamics in a Roth IRA, with dividends reported for 2024, and of Microsoft in two retirement accounts. The federal spending record gives General Dynamics Corp. as the parent of General Dynamics Information Technology, which held ICE task orders for visa-vetting support from May 2021 to August 2024 and from September 2024, the second with 24.3 million dollars obligated. Microsoft held an ICE support award of its own from March 2021 to January 2022. Her amended disclosure values both stocks at None on May 5, 2025. None of the committees that gave to her campaign through June 30, 2026 is a corporation's PAC.

Sources: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Election Commission

Limit: She held small retirement-fund stakes in General Dynamics and Microsoft, both of which have had ICE contracts; both were listed at no value by May 5, 2025. She held no stock in detention or deportation companies.

Rebecca Bennett

Campaign money: over 3 million dollars from individuals

No verdict

What they say

Her campaign said on May 22, 2026 that she had raised more than 3 million dollars in the cycle from over 15,500 individual donors, with 90 per cent of donations 100 dollars or less.

“Her cycle-to-date raise of over $3 million has been from over 15,500 individual donors, with 90% of her donations being $100 or less.”

Source: Rebecca Bennett for Congress

What the record shows · May 22, 2026

Her last report before the page, through May 13, 2026, shows 2,927,964.18 dollars in contributions and transfers for the cycle: 2,748,172.82 from individuals, 113,550 from other political committees and 66,241.36 in transfers. Her July report lists, by date, 164 gifts from individuals received May 14 to 22, totalling 91,044.99 dollars, plus a 6,061.33-dollar transfer from a joint fundraising committee and a 250-dollar gift from another committee. That takes her past 3 million dollars by the day of the claim, to at least 3,025,320.50. By June 30 the cycle total was 4,272,033.75 dollars, 3,902,262.38 from individuals.

Sources: Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission

Why there is no verdict here

The dollar total holds; the rest is not settled. Her reports list by date only donors who gave more than 200 dollars. For individuals alone to pass 3 million by May 22, gifts from the others would need to come to about 88,000 to 161,000 dollars in those nine days. Such gifts came to 30,912 dollars in the 43 days before May 14, and 230,603 in the 48 days from May 14 to June 30. Her reports cannot count 15,500 donors or the share of gifts of 100 dollars or less; ActBlue's filings, which list each gift it passes on, could.

Sources: Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission

Limit: The claim bundles three figures: a dollar total, a donor count and a share of small gifts. Only the first can be read from filings for May 22. The total counts contributions and transfers. Less the 13,784.25 dollars refunded to donors by May 13, it is about 3.01 million, still over 3 million.

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Evidence timeline

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  1. Occurred Sep 4, 2026

    race event

    Official candidate list: three printed candidates

    The state's revised official list and amended certification print three candidates: Kean, Bennett and O'Toole. The Stated Record checked both on September 23, 2026.

    New Jersey Division of Elections New Jersey Division of Elections
  2. Occurred Jul 27, 2026

    race event

    Official candidate list: four candidates

    The Division of Elections' official list printed four candidates for this seat: Kean, Bennett, Leguía and O'Toole.

    New Jersey Division of Elections
  3. Through Jun 30, 2026

    finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    July Quarterly 2026, principal campaign committee REBECCA BENNETT FOR CONGRESS.

    Federal Election Commission
  4. Occurred Jun 2, 2026

    race event

    Primary election

    Kean won the Republican nomination with 35,080 votes and Bennett the Democratic nomination with 27,525.

    New Jersey Division of Elections

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