Between 2020 and 2025, a Qatari foreign agent donated nearly $30,000 to campaign committees linked to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Over the same period, Graham’s office granted his lobbying firm ample access so he could advocate Qatar’s interests, including over 131 total communications between the office and the agent, personal meetings, and phone calls with the senator himself. 

This dynamic has played out extensively in recent years. Qatar’s active foreign agents have donated nearly $700,000 to members of Congress and other government officials since 2020 and, at the same time, enjoyed open lines of communication and face time with influential lawmakers — often the very same people they cut checks to, according to a Washington Examiner review of hundreds of public records.