New Delhi, July 21 -- WASHINGTON - For a Republican senator contemplating any vote that crosses Donald Trump in the next four months, the number $400 million arrived on Tuesday as a clarifying figure. That is the sum that MAGA Inc, the pro-Trump super PAC, has stockpiled ahead of the 2026 US midterm elections, according to reporting by the Financial Times, making it the largest outside-money war chest assembled for a midterm cycle in American political history.

The total gives Trump's political apparatus the financial capacity to intervene in virtually any competitive House or Senate race, to fund primary challengers against Republicans deemed insufficiently loyal, and to run sustained television campaigns across multiple states simultan...