[A] number of major Democratic donors, in particular in Silicon Valley, have been pressing Mr. Biden to move more forcefully on passing voting-rights legislation, seeing state-level Republican restrictions on voting as an existential crisis for democracy.
And they have grown increasingly frustrated as the issue has stalled behind the social spending package still being negotiated on Capitol Hill.
S. Donald Sussman, a hedge fund executive and top Democratic donor, has communicated that he is pausing his political giving until voting-rights legislation advances.
Prominent donors [have been] pushing for more movement on the issue… but none have gone as far as the hedge fund executive S. Donald Sussman, who has communicated that he is pausing his political giving until such a package advances…
Mr. Sussman is one of the financial pillars of the Democratic ecosystem, investing roughly $50 million during the four years that Donald J. Trump was in the White House in federal campaigns, candidates and super PACs…
www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/biden-donors-white-house.html
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