The RNC said it transferred more than $44 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee and National Republican Senatorial Committee between mid-August and mid-October. The money was split roughly evenly, and the committee said it planned to send at least $6 million more by Election Day. The transfers are expected to appear in campaign-finance disclosures filed Tuesday evening, Oct. 20.

The infusion comes as Republicans spend to protect seats in states and districts once considered safely Republican. President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings are weighing on the party’s candidates, according to the report.

A June Supreme Court ruling striking down limits on coordinated spending between party committees and candidates has helped make the transfers especially valuable. The change allows party committees to coordinate more spending with campaigns, including advertising. Republicans have more money in their committees than Democrats, giving the GOP an early advantage under the new rules.

Republican House and Senate committees had aired or booked about $152 million in coordinated ads, compared with about $102 million for their Democratic counterparts, according to media-tracking firm AdImpact. The largest Republican buy supported Ohio Sen. Jon Husted; the largest Democratic buy supported his opponent, former Sen. Sherrod Brown. The RNC also reported spending another $5 million on ads coordinated with Rep. Ashley Hinson’s Senate campaign in Iowa.

The RNC began September with $126 million on hand, after an aggressive fundraising effort led by Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who oversees the party’s finance operation. The committee said it raised $18.5 million in September. By Oct. 14, its cash balance had fallen to $76 million, according to figures officials said would be reflected in a Thursday filing.

The scale of this year’s transfers exceeds the RNC’s recent practice. In each of the four previous election cycles, transfers to the party’s congressional committees ranged from $8 million to about $31 million.

The Democratic National Committee has faced financial constraints. It has reported negative cash on hand, including debt, for nearly the entire 2025-26 election cycle, and was unable to make planned transfers to congressional committees, according to a report in July. DNC spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg said the committee has made “historic, early and aggressive investments in critical party infrastructure,” including monthly payments of more than $1 million to state parties.

The two parties’ congressional committees had raised similar amounts through Aug. 30, RNC officials said. The Republicans attribute the subsequent gap in coordinated advertising to the RNC’s transfers.

RNC Chief of Staff Mike Ambrosini said coordinated spending was part of his appeal to donors, telling them that contributions could support multiple campaign needs. The committee also reported spending about $56 million through early October on canvassing and voter turnout, $27 million on what it calls “election integrity” work, $18 million on data operations and about $11 million on digital work.

The RNC says it will not spend its entire cash balance on the midterms. Some money is held in accounts designated for purposes such as legal expenses and building renovations and cannot legally be used for campaigns. “Whatever we can get that can be deployed is going to be deployed,” Ambrosini said.