Sullivan support group claims $1 trillion cut strengthens Medicaid
Sen. Dan Sullivan voted to cut Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion. A Sullivan support group claims he strengthened Medicaid.
Sen. Dan Sullivan voted last summer for the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over a decade and provides $1 trillion in tax benefits to the richest 1 percent of Americans.
A Sullivan support group is now claiming that Sullivan worked to strengthen Medicaid.
The support group, Last Frontier Action, was started by former Sullivan employees and/or Sullivan supporters—Matt Shuckerow, who now works in PR for Hilcorp; Kevin Sweeney, owner of Six-7 Strategies; and Renee Limoge Reeve, who now works in PR for the cruise ship industry.
Axios reports that the real force behind this and a related Last Frontier political action committee with plans to spend big is “Brock Lowrance, a longtime GOP operative and former senior adviser at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is leading the two political organizations.”
“Last Frontier Action is launching a six-figure digital and TV advertising campaign to bolster Sullivan against former Rep. Mary Peltola in Alaska's Senate race,” Axios reported.
On its nearly empty website, Last Frontier Action calls itself “a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to advancing pro-America, pro-Alaska policies that strengthen our national security, grow our economy and protect our way of life.”
The slide above about Medicaid is from an ad that functions as a campaign ad, but is legally not recognized as such—one of those “call Dan Sullivan and tell him he’s doing a great job” ads that is allowed under a long-standing ridiculous campaign loophole.
A 501(c)(4) nonprofit is a so-called “social welfare organization” under IRS rules.
It must be “must be operated exclusively to promote social welfare.”
“The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. However, a section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization may engage in some political activities, so long as that is not its primary activity,” the IRS says.
We will wait and see how Last Frontier Active devotes 51 percent of its resources to something other than urging people to call Sullivan and thank him.
The corporate filing by Shuckerow, Sweeney and Reeve does not list an Alaska address for their social welfare organization, but an Alabama address—421 Office Park Drive, Mountain Brook, Alabama.
This is the same address used by many conservative groups and political action committees, including an assortment linked to Alaskans for Dan Sullivan, and to the Last Frontier PAC.
Kirsten Quick, who lists that has her address, is the treasurer of the Last Frontier PAC, which reported having $1.3 million on hand at the end of 2025.
ConocoPhillips gave $500,000 on December 15 last year, while the owners of Hilcorp—Jeff and Melinda Hildebrand—gave $100,000 last March.
Members of the Chouest family, who own the Louisiana company that sold its old icebreaker to the federal government at the urging of Sullivan and others, gave $150,000 on November 19.
Royal Caribbean gave $100,000, Alexander C. Karp, CEO of defense contractor Palantir Technologies, gave $125,000, Tour Alaska LLC gave $50,000, the American Chemistry Council gave $50,000 and Howard H. Leach gave $100,000.=
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