Title: PolitiFact | No, AARP isn’t sending money to the Democratic Party
Headings: “A portion of everything you pay A.A.R.P goes directly to the Democratic Party.”
“A portion of everything you pay A.A.R.P goes directly to the Democratic Party.”
No, AARP isn’t sending money to the Democratic Party
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Content: And most of our executive team does not give. Rank-and-file employees have the right to give, of course, but they don’t direct the organization or its policies." PolitiFact used Federal Election Commission data to confirm that the majority of AARP board members and the majority of AARP executive team members haven’t made recent political campaign contributions. Individual donors associated with AARP have donated primarily to Democratic candidates in most election cycles including 2016, 2018 and 2020, according to an Open Secrets campaign contribution database . But when surveyed, about a third of AARP members report that their political leanings are conservative, a third report their leanings are liberal and a third consider themselves independent or in between, according to Young. So what does AARP do with the money it receives from donations or from its $16 per year membership fee? The AARP lobbies for policies such as protecting Medicare, fighting high drug prices, protecting Social Security, combating fraud targeted at older people and addressing senior poverty. Our ruling
A Facebook post asks, "Are you aware that a portion of everything you pay A.A.R.P Goes directly to the Democratic Party." AARP is a tax-exempt social welfare nonprofit that is not permitted to participate in political campaigns. People who work for AARP can make individual political contributions, but those donations do not come from the organization as a whole.