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Price Index Adjustments for Contribution and Expenditure Limitations and Lobbyist Bundling Disclosure Threshold
FEC’s 2026 inflation-adjusted numbers: $65,300 House coordinated party limit, $130,600 floor for Senate and single-district House races, $24,000 lobbyist bundling threshold. FR 2026-04137.
How much can a political party spend in coordination with its own candidate this year? The Federal Election Commission posted the 2026 numbers in a notice published March 3, 2026.
The limits go up each year with inflation. For House races in states with more than one congressional district, the 2026 general election coordinated party expenditure limit is $65,300. That same figure applies to the District of Columbia and to territories that elect a Delegate or Resident Commissioner.
Senate limits depend on each state’s voting-age population, with a floor of $130,600. That floor is also the House limit in the eight single-district states: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. Big states run much higher — the FEC’s table lists $4,071,800 for California and $2,483,800 for Florida.
One more number to know: committees must disclose contributions bundled by lobbyists once they pass $24,000 for 2026. Campaign treasurers, party staff and anyone tracking money in a local race can use these figures as a quick check.
Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/03/2026-04137/price-index-adjustments-for-contribution-and-expenditure-limitations-and-lobbyist-bundling
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Source: the official public federal record 2026-04137 · Federal Register · 2026-04137 · 2026-04137.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.
