Government rescue loans meant for struggling small businesses went to a number of well-connected firms whose executives are major contributors to lawmakers’ campaigns and political parties.

Employees and PACs connected to firms that received loans under the Paycheck Protection Program — and in some cases the companies themselves — contributed at least $52 million to federal committees during the 2020 election cycle. Republicans and conservative groups got $27 million from these donors, while Democrats and liberal groups received $24 million. That’s according to OpenSecrets’ analysis of partial loan data released by the Small Business Administration this month.

OpenSecrets found that employees linked to roughly 4,800 businesses made political donations of $1,000 or more during the 2020 election cycle. That’s a small slice of the 650,000 businesses disclosed as receiving a loan of $150,000 or more.