Google has become the latest corporate giant to financially cut off members of Congress who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election on Jan. 6.
The Silicon Valley giant announced the decision after suspending all contributions to its political action committee NetPAC while it reviews its contribution policies in the wake of the congressional uproar.
“Following the review, the NetPAC board has decided that it will not make any contributions this cycle to any member of Congress who voted against certifying the election results,” a Google spokesman told the New York Post in a statement Tuesday.
Eight senators and 139 House members, all Republicans, voted against counting Pennsylvania’s or/and Arizona’s electoral votes after the electoral vote certification process was interrupted and resumed by congressional unrest on Jan. 6.
Google’s announcement comes two weeks after rival Amazon said it would stop donating to lawmakers who voted to overturn the election results, Reuters reported.
Fellow tech giants Facebook and Microsoft also stopped political donations earlier this month while reviewing their donation policies. Microsoft will decide by Feb. 15 whether to cut off delegates who voted against certification of election results, Axios reported.
Google’s NetPAC paid nearly $2 million in political contributions to candidates and other political action committees from both parties in 2019 and 2020, Federal Election Commission data show. Some of the previous contributions went to Republicans who voted against certifying election results, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the data show.
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