The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC Helped Break the Republican Trifecta with Major Investments in the Races That Decided Congress

Voters across the country delivered overwhelming victories for Democrats this week in a stunning and decisive rebuke of Republican policies that have led to higher costs on everything from gas to groceries to child care. The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC (CFFE PAC) played a critical role in delivering many of those victories, shifting the balance of power in both the House and Senate and unmistakably setting the stage for legislative action to lower costs, especially the cost of caregiving.

CFFE PAC invested over $40 million in competitive races, deploying the largest independent field operations in the country. Our canvassers knocked on the doors of over 16 million voters and held more than 757,000 conversations about which candidates would actually work to lower costs. We reinforced that message through mail, paid media, phone calls, text messages, 29 candidate endorsements, events with families and caregivers, direct contributions to 32 campaigns, and organized nearly $4.3 million in contributions to more than 200 candidates and committees through the CareGIVERS project. This unprecedented effort helped elect care champions across the country.

CFFE PAC's investments in states including Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Texas helped Democrats flip Republican-held seats, defend vulnerable incumbents, and secure the majorities needed to change the direction of Congress. We saturated battleground states with messaging that emphasized Democratic support for lowering costs, especially the high cost of care.

The 2026 election outcomes affirm that the cost of caregiving is the cost of living. As Democrats prepare to govern, the voters who delivered new majorities expect meaningful action to lower the cost of child care, elder care, and health care, and expand access to paid family and medical leave. The opportunity now is to turn that electoral momentum into lasting economic relief for American families.

CFFE PAC Played a Critical Role in the Races That Decided Control of Congress

From major statewide field operations to targeted independent expenditures in closely contested House races, CFFE PAC deployed resources where they mattered most.

• In Texas, CFFE PAC played an integral role in helping to elect a Democratic Senator from the state for the first time in nearly 40 years. In partnership with LCV Victory Fund, CFFE PAC spent $5.3 million in Texas. Our independent field program was the largest in the state, an effort that focused on turning out Black voters in Dallas and Houston and knocked on the doors of nearly 1.7 million voters. CFFE PAC also invested in billboards, statewide digital ads and text messages supporting James Talarico, who made child care affordability a pillar of his campaign and centered it in his economic agenda to lower costs.

• In Iowa, CFFE PAC spent $5 million and ran the largest independent field operation in the state, knocking on the doors of over 1.6 million voters and playing a critical role in a Democratic sweep of the state and the election of Josh Turek, Rob Sand, Christina Bohannan, Lindsay James, and Sarah Trone Garriott. We reinforced the message delivered at the doors via a robust paid communication program that included mail, digital ads, billboards, phone calls and text messages. We also hit the campaign trail with Lindsay James to promote her fight to make care more affordable. All five candidates focused on addressing the spiraling cost of caregiving in their communications with voters.

• In Michigan, in partnership with LCV Victory Fund, CFFE PAC spent $13.1 million and again ran the largest independent field operation in the state, knocking on the doors of more than 6.6 million voters, playing a critical role in the election of Abdul El-Sayed, Jocelyn Benson, Christina Hines and William Lawrence. CFFE PAC also ran digital ads in favor of endorsed candidates and billboards, phone calls and text messages in support of Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed frequently referenced the need to lower the cost of child care on the campaign trail, emphasizing that he gets asked about it by voters “every day.”

• In Ohio, in partnership with LCV Victory Fund, CFFE PAC spent $11.25 million and again ran the largest independent field operation in the state. We knocked on the doors of nearly 3.3 million voters in support of Sherrod Brown, Greg Landsman, Marcy Kaptur, Don Leonard, and Emilia Sykes. Our layered program in Ohio included statewide digital ads, billboards, phone calls and text messages in support of Sherrod Brown. CFFE PAC also moderated an event on elder and child care with Marcy Kaptur in Toledo.

• In Pennsylvania, CFFE PAC spent $1.8 million to help elect Paige Cognetti and Janelle Stelson. We ran the largest independent field programs in both PA-08 and PA-10, knocking on the doors of nearly 600,000 voters across the two districts, layered in PA-08 with direct mail. CFFE PAC also moderated a roundtable on affordability with Stelson.

• In Maine, CFFE PAC spent $6.2 million to help elect Troy Jackson, running the largest independent field program in the state, knocking on the doors of over 2 million voters. We also invested in text messages supporting Jackson and digital ads featuring Mainers speaking out about the high cost of everything from gas to health care.

A Comprehensive Program Built to Win

CFFE PAC’s impact came from a coordinated strategy that reached key audiences long before Election Day and continued through the final stretch of the campaign.

• Electoral programs that brought the issues to voters’ front doors. CFFE PAC invested in large-scale field organizing across competitive House and Senate races that focused on the cost of living, including caregiving. Our face-to-face conversations allowed us to tailor messaging to what mattered most to each voter, and underscored the reality that every person is touched by the crippling cost of care.

• Candidate engagement that kept care affordability front and center. By building strong relationships with candidates, CFFE PAC helped ensure that cost of care was a central issue on the campaign trail and a critical part of the Democratic affordability conversation. CFFE PAC met with all of its endorsed candidates one-on-one to discuss the importance of care affordability to voters and co-hosted care-focused events with candidates around the country.

• Paid communications reinforced the message at scale. Through digital advertising, mail, phones, text messages, and innovative relational ads featuring local voices, CFFE PAC’s independent expenditure program highlighted candidates' records and made the affordability crisis, including the high cost of caregiving, a concrete electoral choice.

• Direct contributions to support care champions. CareGIVERS, a project of CFFE PAC, organized donors to give nearly $4.3 million this cycle in support of House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates, especially those in competitive races, who are champions of lowering the cost of caregiving. CareGIVERS fundraised for more than 200 candidates and committees through in-person and virtual events, as well as email campaigns. CFFE PAC also made direct contributions to each of its endorsed candidates.

Together, these programs created a sustained drumbeat around affordability, ensuring that caregiving was a central issue that voters repeatedly encountered throughout the election cycle.

CFFE PAC Congratulates the New Care Champions Headed to Congress

We are thrilled to welcome to Congress the care champions CFFE PAC proudly endorsed and invested in helping elect.

• Senator-Elect Sherrod Brown (OH)

• Senator-Elect Roy Cooper (NC)

• Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed (MI)

• Senator-Elect Troy Jackson (ME)

• Senator-Elect James Talarico (TX)

• Senator-Elect Josh Turek (IA)

• Representative-Elect Christina Bohannan (IA-01)

• Representative-Elect Lindsay James (IA-02)

• Representative-Elect Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03)

• Representative Greg Landsman (OH-01)

• Representative-Elect Brian Poindexter (OH-07)

• Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)

• Representative Emilia Sykes (OH-13)

• Representative-Elect Don Leonard (OH-15)

• Representative-Elect Bob Brooks (PA-07)

• Representative-Elect Paige Cognetti (PA-08)

• Representative-Elect Janelle Stelson (PA-10)

• Representative-Elect William Lawrence (MI-07)

• Representative-Elect Christina Hines (MI-10)

• Representative-Elect Shannon Taylor (VA-01)

• Representative-Elect Elaine Luria (VA-02)

• Representative Kathy Castor (FL-14)

• Representative-Elect Jamie Ager (NC-11)

• Representative-Elect Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07)

• Representative-Elect JoAnna Mendoza (AZ-06)

• Representative-Elect Denise Powell (NE-02)