David Hogg, an outspoken gun reform advocate and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last month, pressed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on donations he gets from the National Rifle Association.
“Why do you take so much money from the NRA?” Hogg said on Twitter Friday in response to one of McCain’s tweets about a redevelopment project in the Phoenix region.
Why do you take so much money from the NRA?
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 30, 2018
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, McCain is the top recipient of NRA funding for members of Congress currently in office. Over the course of his career, he has received more than $7 million from the organization.
McCain’s office did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner for comment and at the time of publication, McCain has not responded to Hogg on social media.
McCain was diagnosed last summer with a form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma. He has remained in Arizona since December, where he is recovering from chemotherapy and radiation treatments. It’s uncertain when he will return to Washington, but his daughter Meghan McCain said earlier this month she was “cautiously optimistic” he would return to the Senate this summer.
Hogg has criticized the NRA in the past following the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, which took the lives of 17 individuals.
He most recently spearheaded a boycott of advertisers from Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s show after she tweeted that Hogg was complaining about being rejected by four colleges. Ingraham later apologized for her comments, but Hogg refused to accept the apology.
