Rep. Devin Nunes raised $2.6 million across his political committees in the first quarter as the Californian aims to become the top Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee after Texas Rep. Kevin Brady retires next year.
Nunes entered April with an $11.3 million war chest to spend on his 2022 reelection campaign, sources close to the congressman confirmed on Thursday, signaling that his robust fundraising has not been slowing down since former President Donald Trump left office. Nunes’s seniority on the committee positions him as Brady’s successor. But the congressman isn’t taking his ascension for granted.
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During the first three months of the year, Nunes transferred $170,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP campaign arm, and he is focused on assisting colleagues in other ways over the course of the midterm election cycle. If House Republicans recapture the majority, Nunes could become the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Congress’s tax-writing panel, on which he has served for many years.
Nunes, 47, is the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence. From that perch, he became a darling of conservative media and subsequently built a formidable grassroots fundraising operation on the strength of his loyal defense of Trump through multiple national security-related controversies.
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Nunes and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy represent neighboring ruby-red districts in California’s Central Valley, and their close alliance should boost his pitch to rise to the top of the committee should any House Republicans run against him for that plumb post.
