Everyone who makes a contribution to a federal political campaign above a certain dollar amount has to report his or her occupation and employer, including those employed by federal agencies. How do contributions from employees of those agencies compare? Second, this is the number of contributions, including, possibly, multiple contributions from the same person. Third, these, too, are not necessarily representative of the agencies on the whole, because higher-paid employees might be expected to make larger campaign contributions. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post)Although we can’t say that most employees of these agencies are Democrats, we can say that most of the contributions made by identified employees of these departments went to Democrats.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 17:05 UTC