The Trump administration has sought to eliminate what it alleges is partisan bias within the Justice Department, but the vast majority of political donations from individuals identifying themselves as DOJ employees are still going to Democratic-aligned committees, according to a Fox News Digital analysis of federal campaign finance records.
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Between January 2025 and August of this year, just over 75% of campaign contributions from individuals identifying themselves as Department of Justice employees went to Democratic committees, the analysis of federal campaign finance records found.
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Fox News Digital analyzed roughly $300,000 in political contributions recorded by the Federal Election Commission between January 2025 and August 2026 from donors who listed their employer as "Department of Justice," "DOJ" or a variation of those names.
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Contributions were categorized by the political affiliation of the recipient candidate or committee, while independent-expenditure committees were classified according to the candidates or parties they supported.
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When exporting data from the Federal Election Commission's dashboard, an option to include donations from "unique individuals only" was selected to filter out duplicative records.
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As the Trump administration has progressed, the partisan slant of DOJ donations has become more pronounced.
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Through 2025, about 70% of donations from those identifying themselves as DOJ staff went to Democratic committees, a figure that rose to just under 90% in 2026, according to Fox News Digital's findings.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche and his predecessor, Pam Bondi, both claimed that the Trump administration inherited a deeply corrupt DOJ, pointing to allegations that the agency was inundated with political bias under President Joe Biden's tenure.
"There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the Department of Justice who despise Donald Trump, despise us," Bondi said in early 2025.
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"Right now, we’re going to root them out; we will find them, and they will no longer be employed.
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Critics have pushed back against claims of political weaponization during the Biden administration, arguing that high-profile investigations into President Donald Trump and other conservatives originated from legitimate legal concerns.
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Both of Trump’s attorneys general under his second administration have made strides to recruit a greater number of ideologically aligned lawyers while attempting to push those out who may not be willing to advance the administration’s interests.
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In early February 2026, DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle publicly encouraged lawyers who "support President Trump" to contact him about becoming federal prosecutors.
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Stephen Miller amplified the appeal on social media with the caption "patriots needed," and sitting U.S. Attorney Jason Quiñones reposted the appeal alongside the phrase "we are hiring!"
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Mizelle later defended the approach as ensuring that executive-branch lawyers were in line with the elected president’s agenda.
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The administration's personnel overhaul has coincided with a substantial exodus of attorneys from federal service.
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Over 10,000 attorneys have left federal service since Trump took office for a second term.
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Fox News Digital reported in July that well over 100 federal attorneys had left the Trump administration for roles in Democratic-run state attorneys general offices.
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Many of these lawyers took decades of experience with them, prompting concerns that the Trump administration could be depriving itself of the ability to handle highly technical legal matters.
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Some of these seasoned former federal lawyers have since joined legal action against the Trump administration.
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While a significant number of government lawyers have left federal service under Trump, and some prominent conservatives have joined the administration, campaign finance records show that Democratic committees continue to receive the overwhelming majority of political contributions from donors identifying themselves as Justice Department employees.
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Among the most common recipients of donations from those identifying themselves as DOJ employees were Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, and Emily’s List, a pro-abortion group associated with the Democratic Party.
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Much of the DOJ's work concerns investigations and prosecutions unrelated to partisan politics, and the campaign finance records do not establish whether employees' political preferences have influenced the department's day-to-day operations.
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Progressive critics, to the contrary, have alleged that the Trump administration is using the Justice Department to target its political enemies.
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Those who were fired from the Department were fired for a reason.
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Those who resigned or took the fork in the road option likely aligned more with the priorities of President Biden and would naturally leave, which is common during transitions," a DOJ spokeswoman previously told Fox News Digital.
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"The Administration gave career employees the fork in the road option to intentionally reduce the size of the government and eliminate unnecessary layers of staff who don’t effectively contribute to the mission of aggressively tackling crime."
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The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.
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