{"id":92290,"date":"2026-05-14T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=92290"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:16:35","slug":"bernie-sanders-slams-andreesen-horowitzs-115-million-splurge-to-buy-politicians-who-oppose-ai-crypto-regulation-get-big-money-out-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=92290","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Slams Andreesen Horowitz&#8217;s $115 Million Splurge To &#8216;Buy Politicians&#8217; Who Oppose AI, Crypto Regulation: &#8216;Get Big Money Out Of Politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0<strong>Bernie Sanders<\/strong>\u00a0(I-VT)\u00a0criticized venture capital firm <strong>Andreesen Horowitz<\/strong> on Wednesday for reportedly pouring massive funds into politicians in the ongoing election cycle.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sanders Laments \u2018Broken\u2019 Campaign Finance<\/h2>\n<p>Sanders took to X to express his concerns about the influence of big money in politics. <\/p>\n<p>He specifically called out\u00a0Andreesen Horowitz,\u00a0a Silicon Valley firm with over\u00a0$100 billion in assets, for spending more than $115 million in the midterm election efforts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/andreessen-horowitz-politics.html\">according <\/a>to a New York Times report.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said Andreessen Horowitz was trying to \u201cbuy politicians\u201d who oppose regulating artificial intelligence and the cryptocurrency industry, deeming it a sign of a \u201cbroken\u201d campaign finance system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnd Citizens United, ban Super PACs &amp; get Big Money out of politics-NOW,\u201d the independent lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Andreessen Horowitz didn\u2019t immediately return Benzinga\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Andreesen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley firm with $100 billion in assets, can spend over $115 million to buy politicians who oppose &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52550107\/bernie-sanders-andreessen-horowitz-buy-politicians-ai-crypto?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bernie\" sanders slams andreesen horowitz million splurge to politicians who oppose ai crypto regulation: big money out of politics>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u00a0(I-VT)\u00a0criticized venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz on Wednesday for reportedly pouring massive funds into politicians in the ongoing election cycle. Sanders Laments \u2018Broken\u2019 Campaign Finance Sanders took to X to express his concerns about the influence of big money in politics. He specifically called out\u00a0Andreesen Horowitz,\u00a0a Silicon Valley firm with over\u00a0$100 billion in assets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-92290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}