Save America PAC — President Donald Trump’s preferred vehicle for paying legal bills — spent more than $5.1 million on legal bills during the third quarter, or around $56,000 per day, according to the committees’ latest filing to the Federal Election Commission.
That kind of spending has sent the leadership PAC — which is often pushing money out the door faster than it can come in — into legal debt topping $1.9 million.
Never Surrender, another Trump leadership PAC, helped to bail out Save America PAC by transferring from its account almost all of the $4.8 million Save America took in during the third quarter.
But it wasn’t enough to cover all of Save America’s legal bills, or the other $343,000 Save America spent on media consulting, payroll and other expenses, FEC records indicate.
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Trump is a convicted felon who has faced numerous criminal and civil proceedings during the past several years, including a 2023 trial during which a New York jury found him liable for sexual abuse. Trump has also gone on the legal offensive of late, personally suing media organizations.
Neither Save America nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.
Save America has collectively paid more than two-dozen firms about $20.4 million for legal services and consulting since January 2025, when Trump began his second presidential term, according to FEC records. The PAC owes money to 12 of those firms, including two based in London.
Save America owes $761,000 to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the legal giant that has represented Trump in several high-profile legal battles, including the president’s unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn the $83 million defamation verdict that the writer E. Jean Carroll won.
The PAC also owes $663,000 to NechelesLaw LLP. Susan Necheles was one of the defense attorneys who cross-examined the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during Trump’s “hush money” trial in 2024.
Brito PLLC, a Florida-based firm that has represented the president’s cases against news media giants including ABC News and The New York Times, is also owed $239,000.
Save America is also in debt $34,000 to the Dhillon Law Group, the firm founded by Harmeet Dhillon, who now serves in the Trump administration as assistant attorney general for the civil rights division at the Department of Justice.
The PAC also owes thousands of dollars to firms including New York-based criminal defense firm Tacopina, Seigel & DeOreo; Houston-based patent litigation firm Taylor Dykema PLLC; and civil rights and criminal defense firm James Otis Law Group LLC, among others.
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