随着选民担忧物价，许多参议院候选人是百万富翁 根据《纽约时报》对财务披露表的审查，富人在参议院主要候选人中占据重要地位。
As Voters Worry About Prices, Many Senate Candidates Are Millionaires The wealthy are well represented in the ranks of major candidates for the chamber, according to a New York Times review of financial disclosure forms.
中期选举已成为“负担能力选举”，选民对飞涨的物价和悬殊的贫富差距愤愤不平，可能会在投票箱上发泄不满。
The midterms have become the affordability election, as voters incensed about rising prices and yawning inequality threaten to take out their frustrations at the ballot box.
然而，大多数希望代表他们的顶尖参议院候选人，其财务组合却让他们与这些担忧格格不入。
Most of the top Senate candidates who want to represent them, though, have financial portfolios that put them out of touch with those concerns.
根据《纽约时报》对已提交财务披露表的63名主要参议院候选人的审查，至少一半人的家庭净资产达到100万美元或以上。（还有七名候选人尚未提交。）这远高于美国家庭中位数净资产，根据美联储的数据，截至2025年，该数字为21.59万美元。
At least half of the 63 major Senate candidates who have filed financial disclosure forms so far have a household net worth of at least $1 million, according to a New York Times review of the forms. (Seven candidates haven’t yet filed.) That is far more than the median American household net worth, which was $215,900 as of 2025, according to the Federal Reserve.
候选人只需提供有限且模糊的财富图景，因此参选参议院的百万富翁实际人数可能要高得多。已提交表格的参议院候选人中，超过三分之二人均家庭净资产高于美国平均水平。显而易见的是，竞选参议院在很大程度上是富人的游戏。
Candidates are required to provide only a limited and vague picture of their wealth, so the true number of millionaires running for the Senate could well be significantly higher. More than two-thirds of the Senate hopefuls who have filed forms appear to have a household net worth above the average American’s. What is clear is that running for Senate is largely a rich person’s game.
而在特朗普总统十年前首次将财富和商业成功的形象编织进总统竞选主张之后，一些资产较少的候选人正试图攻击资产更多的对手。酒店投资与学生贷款 飞机。奶牛。矿产权利。各种不同的资产构成了候选人的财富。
And, a decade after President Trump first wove an image of wealth and business success into a pitch for the presidency, some candidates who have less are trying to attack opponents who have more. Hotel Investments and Student Loans A plane. Cows. Mineral rights. A lot of different assets have built candidates’ wealth.
无法精确确定候选人家庭财务的价值，原因有二：其一，报告采用宽泛的区间；其二，至少一项关键财富要素——不产生收入的住宅——无需申报。（《纽约时报》在计算家庭净资产时，将候选人及其配偶名下的资产和负债均计入。）财务披露表揭示了候选人家庭财富的最低下限，也揭示了财富来源。
It is impossible to precisely ascertain the worth of a candidate’s household finances, both because they are reported in broad ranges and because the value of at least one key aspect of wealth — homes that don’t generate income — does not have to be reported. (In its household net worth calculations, The Times included assets and liabilities attributed both to the candidates and to their spouses.) Financial disclosure forms reveal the lowest bound of a candidate’s household wealth. They also reveal the sources of that wealth.
这些表格还能提供候选人财务的其他方面信息，例如他们是否偿还房贷或有学生贷款。
They can also offer insights into other aspects of a candidate’s finances, such as whether they pay mortgages or have student loans.
44名参议院候选人报告持有商业权益，26人披露了产生收入的房地产资产。
Forty-four Senate candidates reported holding business interests, and 26 disclosed real estate assets that generated income.
选票上最富有的候选人之一包括内布拉斯加州共和党参议员皮特·里基茨和弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员马克·沃纳，两人的家庭净资产均达到九位数。
Among the richest candidates on the ballot are Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, a Republican, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a Democrat, who have nine-figure household net worths.
部分候选人的最低净资产刚刚低于百万富翁的门槛，例如明尼苏达州民主党副州长佩吉·弗拉根，其家庭资产至少为99万美元。部分候选人，包括阿肯色州共和党参议员汤姆·科顿，报告了负家庭净资产——但无法确认是否属实，因为任何候选人都可能拥有一处无需申报的住宅。
Some candidates’ minimum net worths put them just shy of known millionaire status, including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota, a Democrat, whose household was worth at least $990,000. Some candidates, including Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a Republican, reported a negative household net worth — although it is impossible to know if that is really the case, since any candidate could own a home that didn’t have to be reported.
部分候选人拥有不寻常的资产，例如矿产权（密歇根州的迈克·罗杰斯、怀俄明州的哈丽特·哈格曼和德克萨斯州的肯·帕克斯顿）。南达科他州共和党参议员迈克·朗兹是酒店投资者。正在竞选参议员的俄克拉荷马州众议员凯文·赫恩的妻子至少拥有一架飞机和一个飞机库。
Some have unusual assets, like mineral rights (Mike Rogers of Michigan, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming and Ken Paxton of Texas). Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota is an investor in hotels. The wife of Representative Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, who is running for the Senate, owns at least one airplane, and a hangar to go with it.
密西西比州共和党参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯在本州拥有一家农场，并出售牛只。
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi owns a farm in her state and sells cows.
仅有两名候选人本身背负着压垮许多美国人的财务负担：学生贷款。他们是肯塔基州参议院民主党候选人查尔斯·布克，以及新泽西州参议院共和党候选人贾斯廷·墨菲。
And just two candidates themselves have the financial baggage weighing down many Americans: student loans. They are Charles Booker, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Kentucky, and Justin Murphy, the Republican nominee for the Senate in New Jersey.
“我曾是个穿着好市多旧衣的孩子”财富问题在今年的竞选中屡屡出现，一些民主党人试图将个人财富的存在本身变成政治负担。
‘I Was a Kid Wearing Goodwill Hand-Me-Downs’ Wealth has come up time and again on the campaign trail this year, with some Democrats seeking to turn the very existence of personal wealth into a political liability.
这种情况在内布拉斯加州最为显著，里基茨先生是国会最富有的成员之一，其家庭财富可能至少达1.28亿美元。他多次遭到独立对手、名叫丹·奥斯本的机修工的攻击，后者去年申报的收入约为10.8万美元。但候选人不必像里基茨先生那样富有，其资产才会成为攻击目标。
This has happened most notably in Nebraska, where Mr. Ricketts is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, with a household fortune that could be at least $128 million. He has repeatedly faced attacks from his independent opponent, a mechanic named Dan Osborn, who reported an income of about $108,000 last year. But candidates don’t have to be as wealthy as Mr. Ricketts is for their assets to become a target.
例如，德克萨斯州参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科的一则广告，突出了其共和党对手、州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿庞大的房地产组合。（帕克斯顿先生未出现在《纽约时报》的百万富翁名单上，因为他的资产和负债以宽泛区间申报，其财富可能从低端的10.3万美元到高端的约2200万美元不等。）广告说：“投票给詹姆斯·塔拉里科，”“他只有一套房子。”
For example, an ad from James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, highlights the vast real estate portfolio of his Republican rival, Ken Paxton, the state attorney general. (Mr. Paxton does not appear on The Times’s list of millionaires because his assets and liabilities are reported in wide ranges that could put his wealth anywhere between $103,000 at the low end and roughly $22 million at the high end.)“Vote for James Talarico,” the ad says.
在阿拉斯加州，前众议员、民主党人玛丽·佩尔托拉试图将其共和党对手、参议员丹·沙利文的财富与华盛顿的腐败指控——尽管模糊不清——联系起来。
“He has one house.”In Alaska, former Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat, has sought to link the wealth of her Republican opponent, Senator Dan Sullivan, to broad — if vague — allegations about corruption in Washington.
“丹是一个被操纵的体系的一部分，在这个体系里，政客们变得富有，而你却受到伤害，”佩尔托拉女士在一则广告中说。“他们赚取现金，而我们的柴油价格却在上涨。”在爱荷华州，参议院民主党候选人的一个论点是，他不是百万富翁。
“Dan’s part of a rigged system, where politicians get wealthy, and you get hurt,” Ms. Peltola says in an ad. “They make cash while our diesel prices go up.”And in Iowa, a talking point for the Democratic Senate nominee is that he’s not a millionaire.
“我曾是个穿着Goodwill二手衣服、拿着颜色不对的午餐券的孩子，”候选人乔什·图雷克在一则广告中说，并补充道，“正是像我这样的家庭为特朗普的医疗削减付出代价。”（据其财务披露表显示，他的共和党对手、众议员阿什利·欣森的家庭净资产至少为220万美元。）在财富问题上似乎存在党派倾向：在32名披露信息显示其为百万富翁的候选人中，近四分之三是共和党人。
“I was a kid wearing Goodwill hand-me-downs, with the wrong color lunch ticket,” the nominee, Josh Turek, says in an ad, adding, “It’s families like mine who pay the price for Trump’s health care cuts.” (His Republican opponent, Representative Ashley Hinson, has a household net worth of at least $2.2 million, according to her financial disclosure forms.) There appears to be a partisan tilt when it comes to wealth: Of the 32 candidates whose disclosures establish them as millionaires, nearly three-quarters are Republicans.
哈佛男人相争 财富问题也在周三晚新罕布什尔州的参议院辩论舞台上被提及。
When Harvard Men Fight The issue of wealth also came up on the Senate debate stage in New Hampshire on Wednesday night.
民主党候选人、众议员克里斯·帕帕斯提出了本党对共和党候选人、前参议员约翰·E·苏努努的一项关键攻击：即他在输掉参议院连任竞选后的18年里所赚的钱。
Representative Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee, brought up a key attack his party has levied against the Republican candidate, former Senator John E. Sununu: The money he has made in the 18 years since he lost re-election to the Senate.
“他在国会任职期间一直与大型石油公司站在一起投票，随后又为华盛顿特区最大的游说公司之一效力大捞一笔，其净资产飙升至估计3500万美元，”帕帕斯先生说。
“He voted with Big Oil throughout his time in Congress and then cashed in working for one of the biggest lobbying firms in Washington, D.C., and his net worth surged to an estimated $35 million,” Mr. Pappas said.
苏努努先生大为恼火，指责帕帕斯先生看不懂财务披露表——该表以区间形式报告资产。帕帕斯先生引用的是其区间的上限。“老天作证，我可没有3500万美元的身家，”苏努努先生说。“他看不懂财务披露表。我把这归咎于他在哈佛度过的那段时光。”根据帕帕斯先生的财务披露文件，他的家庭净资产可能从负值——很大程度上因为按揭贷款——到数百万美元不等。
Mr. Sununu bristled and accused Mr. Pappas of being unable to read a financial disclosure form, which reports assets in ranges. Mr. Pappas had cited the upper bound of his range. “Goodness knows, I’m not worth $35 million,” Mr. Sununu said. “He can’t read a financial disclosure. Now I blame that on the time he spent at Harvard.”Mr. Pappas’s household net worth could be anywhere from negative — in large part because of mortgages — to several million, according to his financial disclosure documents.