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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

Goals come from the campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

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 filings it covers 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

What they say they want to do

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

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.

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

What they say, and what the record shows

Each card gets one label from a fixed list and states its own limit.

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.

What the record shows · Jun 30, 2026

Her FEC filings through June 30, 2026 show no money from a corporation's PAC and none tied to Palantir; her PAC money came from leadership, labor, ideological and campaign committees.

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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”

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.

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.

What the record shows · May 5, 2025

Her amended disclosure lists none of her 98 individual stocks as held on May 5, 2025, though she keeps funds and private Midi Health shares.

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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”

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.

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.

What the record shows · May 5, 2025

Her 2024-May 2025 disclosure lists retirement shares in two companies with past ICE contracts, valued at none by May 5, and no detention/deportation company stocks.

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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”

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.

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 assessment

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.

What the record shows · May 22, 2026

Her FEC filings show at least $3,025,320 raised by May 22, 2026, but the donor count and the share of small gifts can't be read from them.

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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.”

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.

Why there is no assessment 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.

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.

  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.

  3. Through Jun 30, 2026

    finance

    FEC filing snapshot

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

  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.

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Sources23 source records

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  1. Meet Rebeccahttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/meet-rebecca/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign biography. Her military service is stated by the campaign and was not checked against a service record, which is not public.

    candidate statement

    For: Current role; Background, goals, record and campaign money

  2. Official primary election results, House of Representatives, June 2, 2026 (document)

    New Jersey Division of Elections · Published Jul 27, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Official results list dated July 27, 2026. Kean is marked the Republican winner with 35,080 votes and Bennett the Democratic winner with 27,525.

    official election record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Primary election

  3. Rebecca Bennett, candidate financial disclosure report, 2026 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Filing 10076779, filed May 15, 2026, covering January 1, 2025 to April 15, 2026. Every one of the 98 publicly traded individual stocks listed [ST] is valued None, meaning not held at the end of the period, with capital gains reported for 2025 on about three quarters of them. What remains in her and her spouse's accounts is exchange-traded and mutual funds, a savings account, a 529 plan, a rental house, and shares of Midi Health Inc., a private company, from exercised incentive stock options described as non-tradable and non-public. sha256 8078482be5062fd64d711333148a894e1292e6b0060201019920f04e6da06890.

    official office record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Stock trading: divesting her own stocks

  4. Making New Jersey More Affordablehttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/priorities/making-new-jersey-more-affordable/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign priority page.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  5. Lowering Healthcare Costshttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/priorities/lowering-healthcare-costs/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign priority page. One of its bullets concerns her opponent's votes and is not used here.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  6. Defending Our Freedomshttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/priorities/defending-our-freedoms/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign priority page.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Stock trading: divesting her own stocks

  7. Protecting America's National Securityhttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/priorities/protecting-americas-national-security/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign priority page.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  8. Safeguarding New Jersey's Environmenthttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/priorities/safeguarding-new-jerseys-environment/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign priority page.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  9. Growing New Jersey's Economyhttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/priorities/growing-new-jerseys-economy/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign priority page.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  10. Official general election results, House of Representatives, November 5, 2024 (document)

    New Jersey Division of Elections · Published Dec 5, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Official results list dated December 5, 2024. Seventh District: Kean 223,331, Sue Altman 200,025, Andrew Black (Green) 4,258, Lana Leguia (Libertarian Party) 3,784.

    official election record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  11. REBECCA BENNETT FOR CONGRESS, receipts from committees, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00897165/?cycle=2026&tab=raising

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on September 23, 2026: Schedule A lines 11B (1 row), 11C (118 rows, of which 111 are receipts and 7 memo entries) and 12 (86 rows, 74 memo), through June 30, 2026. Each line reconciles to the filed summary. The 118 line-11C rows were also read one by one for the corporate-PAC card; the 111 receipts total 272,525 dollars, the cycle figure on line 11C of file 1995184.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Campaign money: corporate PACs; Investments: ICE contractors

  12. The factshttps://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/facts/

    Rebecca Bennett for Congress · Published May 22, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign rebuttal page, published May 22, 2026 and modified May 24, 2026 according to its own metadata, before the June 2 primary.

    candidate statement

    For: Campaign money: corporate PACs; Stock trading: divesting her own stocks; Investments: ICE contractors; Campaign money: over 3 million dollars from individuals

  13. Rebecca Bennett, candidate financial disclosure report, 2025 (amended May 15, 2026) (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published May 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Filing 10078015, an amendment filed May 15, 2026 to her 2025 candidate report, for the same period, January 1, 2024 to May 5, 2025. It supersedes the original of June 4, 2025 (10063587) and the first amendment of July 23, 2025 (10071624), which lists the same values. It lists 98 individual stocks [ST] in two retirement accounts (IRA 1, 47; Roth 2, 50) and a Merrill Lynch investment account (1), and values every one at None, where the original had valued 91 of them as held. General Dynamics (GD) is in the Roth account with dividends reported for 2024; Microsoft (MSFT) is in both retirement accounts. No GEO Group, CoreCivic or Palantir holding appears in any of her four disclosures. Read by the fixer on September 23, 2026 from the PDF (checked by its %PDF magic bytes). sha256 f31a665df775b38f01fea7ba855daad5b7c5e81c997fa6728788c5389478826e.

    official office record

    For: Stock trading: divesting her own stocks; Investments: ICE contractors

  14. Rebecca Bennett, candidate financial disclosure report, 2025 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Filing 10063587, filed June 4, 2025, covering January 1, 2024 to May 5, 2025. It valued 91 individual stocks as held in two retirement accounts and a brokerage account. It has been amended twice for the same period, on July 23, 2025 (10071624) and May 15, 2026 (10078015); the amendments list 98 individual stocks and value every one at None. The latest amendment is the desk's reading of this period. sha256 4ac0ffc43e1009633740d8d92c005f6390fa04b87a2f6d56120cc39b4d3970a6.

    official office record

    For: Stock trading: divesting her own stocks; Investments: ICE contractors

  15. Contract award 70CMSD21FC0000011, General Dynamics Information Technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementhttps://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD21FC0000011_7012_70CMSD18A00000003_7012

    USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Awarding sub-agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Recipient General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., parent General Dynamics Corp. Visa lifecycle vetting initiative support services, period of performance May 25, 2021 to August 31, 2024, 20,044,760.43 dollars obligated. Read from the USAspending award API on September 23, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Investments: ICE contractors

  16. Contract award 70CMSD24FR0000050, General Dynamics Information Technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementhttps://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD24FR0000050_7012_GS00Q14OADU116_4732

    USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Awarding sub-agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Recipient General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., whose parent the record gives as General Dynamics Corp. Titled "Visa Lifecycle Support Services", period of performance from September 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, 24,301,745.59 dollars obligated. Read from the USAspending award API on September 23, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Investments: ICE contractors

  17. Contract award 70CTD021FR0000033, Microsoft Corporation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementhttps://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD021FR0000033_7012_HSHQDC15D00017_7001

    USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Awarding sub-agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Recipient Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Premier Support, period of performance March 28, 2021 to January 27, 2022, 602,229 dollars obligated. A recipient search of ICE awards found no award to Microsoft itself running in 2024 or 2025; ICE bought Microsoft licences through Dell in that time (source usaspending-dell-msft-ice-2024). Read from the USAspending award API on September 23, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Investments: ICE contractors

  18. Contract award 70CTD024FC0000005, Dell Federal Systems, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementhttps://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD024FC0000005_7012_70RTAC24A00000001_7001

    USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Awarding sub-agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Recipient Dell Federal Systems L.P. Described as a Microsoft Enterprise License Agreement for ICE, period of performance March 27, 2024 to March 26, 2025, 17,595,776.61 dollars obligated. Microsoft is not the recipient. Read from the USAspending award API on September 23, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Investments: ICE contractors

  19. REBECCA BENNETT FOR CONGRESS, Pre-Primary 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Covers April 1 to May 13, 2026, received May 21, 2026, file 1978509: the last report filed before her campaign's May 22 fact-check page. Cycle to date: 2,748,172.82 dollars from individuals, 113,550 from other political committees and 66,241.36 in transfers (lines 11a, 11c, 12), 2,927,964.18 in all; total receipts of 2,944,137.78 also include 4,716.77 in offsets to operating expenditures and 11,456.83 in other receipts (lines 14, 15). Unitemised individual gifts for the period: 30,911.67 dollars. Read from the raw .fec file; the most recent report for the period, not amended.

    fec filing

    For: Campaign money: over 3 million dollars from individuals

  20. REBECCA BENNETT FOR CONGRESS, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Principal campaign committee C00897165, covering May 14 to June 30, 2026, the same period as Kean's, received July 15, 2026, file 1995184. Most recent report, not superseded by an amendment. Cycle to date through June 30, 2026: total receipts 4,272,033.75 dollars, of which 3,902,262.38 from individuals, read from the raw .fec file. Its itemised receipts dated May 14 to 22, 2026, re-summed from the raw file (non-memo rows): 164 gifts from individuals (line 11a) totalling 91,044.99 dollars; a 6,061.33-dollar transfer from New Politics Next Mission X Patriot PAC, a joint fundraising committee (line 12, May 15); and 250 dollars from Eve Niedergang for Princeton Council (line 11c, May 18). Unitemised individual gifts for May 14 to June 30: 230,603 dollars.

    fec filing

    For: Campaign money: over 3 million dollars from individuals; FEC filing snapshot

  21. Official list, candidates for House of Representatives, general election November 3, 2026 (September 4 edition) (document)

    New Jersey Division of Elections · Published Sep 4, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Official list dated September 4, 2026, which supersedes the July 27 list. It prints three candidates for the Seventh District: Kean, Bennett and O'Toole. Leguía is not on it.

    official election record

    For: Official candidate list: three printed candidates

  22. Amended certification, 7th Congressional District (document)

    New Jersey Division of Elections · Published Sep 4, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The state's amended certification for this seat, dated September 4, 2026. Candidate totals: one Democratic, one Republican, one STOP ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE; three in all.

    official election record

    For: Official candidate list: three printed candidates

  23. Official list, candidates for House of Representatives, general election November 3, 2026 (document)

    New Jersey Division of Elections · Published Jul 27, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Official list dated July 27, 2026. It prints four candidates for the Seventh District: Kean (Republican, marked incumbent), Bennett (Democratic), Leguía (Libertarian Party) and O'Toole (slogan STOP ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE), each in all six counties.

    official election record

    For: Official candidate list: four candidates

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