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These are the companies still giving money to the lawmakers who voted to overturn the election results

  • After the January 6 Capitol siege, dozens of companies said they'd cut ties with some Trump groups.
  • Several companies vowed to stop PAC donations to lawmakers who voted against Biden's certification.
  • However, other companies made vaguer statements - and have restarted donations.

Companies including Toyota, JetBlue, and Cigna are still donating thousands of dollars to the lawmakers who voted against Joe Biden's certification as president.

After a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6 to try and prevent Congress from certifying Biden's win, many top US companies scrambled to cut ties with the 147 GOP lawmakers who voted against the results.

Dozen of companies, including Walmart, Amazon, Morgan Stanley, and AT&T, said they would stop giving donations to these specific lawmakers, and Hallmark even asked Hawley and Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall to return its donations.

Other companies, including Microsoft, Deloitte, and Goldman Sachs, said they would instead pause all political donations to both Republicans and Democrats. Many gave a set timescale for their pause.

A further group of companies said they would review their contribution policies or would take the January 6 events into account when awarding funding.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, founder of Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute, told Axios in March the companies that halted political donations are unlikely to lift this ban any time soon. However, recent Federal Election Commission filings show that some companies are still giving to these lawmakers.

Color of Change, which says it is America's largest racial justice organization and has more than 7 million members, is urging these companies to halt the donations.

Jade Ogunnaike, senior campaign director at Color of Change, told Insider that Trump's presidency "undermined faith in our democracy."

She said lawmakers including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who voted against Biden's certification, "would have been very happy to do anything possible that they could to ensure that Trump remained in the office."

"You can't forget that these are not congresspeople that we can trust," Ogunnaike added.

"It's incredibly important that corporations understand that and refuse to back people who were supporting violence in the transfer of power," she said.

The vast majority of corporations who pledged to stop funding these GOP lawmakers have stayed true to their word - but some companies who made vaguer promises about assessing PAC criteria have restarted donations, while others gave money instead to various Republican committees that, in turn, fund these lawmakers.

Here are the companies that have still been funding these 147 objectors, according to Federal Election Commission data up to March 31.

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