Dive Brief:
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Robert Jentgens, CFO of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), abruptly resigned, according to CNN, after nearly 150 GOP congresspeople, including leader Kevin McCarthy, voted against certifying the Electoral College results.
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Jentgens resigned from the organization following the insurrection on the Capitol on January 6, and committee members' refusal to accept the results of the election, an official familiar with the matter told CNN, adding that Jentgens was "furious" about the House vote, and "immediately left the building" after sending in his resignation.
- He left the committee after just shy of ten years; he joined in September 2011 as its controller, before becoming its CFO two years later.
Dive Insight:
Jentgens has spent his entire professional career working in financial leadership for the Republican party.
In 2005, he was a budget manager for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He spent six months as deputy CFO for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign. He later returned to the NRSC, this time as its director of accounting.
Between 2009 and 2011, he served as president of his own consultancy, where he specialized in FEC consulting, before moving to the NRCC.
At the NRCC, according to his LinkedIn, Jentgens was responsible for all aspects of the treasury and accounting departments, as well as for cash management, monthly FEC filing and managing the treasury accounting staff.
Michael McAdams, the committee's communications director, confirmed Jentgens' departure to CNN but declined to name a reason.
On Friday, the NRCC shared its senior staff for the 2022 election cycle. It named Katy Williams, the brand's senior treasury advisor since June 2019, its new CFO.
"[Jentgens is] still employed by the NRCC and is training the incoming CFO," McAdams told CNN.
The NRCC works to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives through direct financial contributions, technical and research assistance, voter registration efforts and other initiatives. It is a registered 527 group, which is a tax-exempt group “created primarily to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office,” according to the committee's Wikipedia page.
Representatives for the NRCC did not respond to CFO Dive's request for comment.