The donations are capped by law at $5,000 per candidate+election (so typically a corporate PAC can give $10,000 to a congressional or senate candidate).

The amounts are not as important as the fact that Google's name is attached to them. But I agree with you that the overall figure is tiny, which makes it more mysterious why Google continues to make these donations, which amount to legalized bribery.

IBM and Apple do fine without a corporate PAC. Microsoft suspended its own PAC after strong internal pressure from employees over donations to some of the same terrible people.

afaik the limit is $5,000 per election, or x2 $2500 payments. the total political spending from google is closer to several hundred thousand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United...

This, though I'd prefer the official link: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...

Google is usually maxing the donations it's allowed.

It's remarkable how little it takes to get on the radar of a Congressional representative.

Isn't there a cap of something like $4000 for any political donation?