Billionaire heiress and Mamdani-Lover Now Bankrolling Democrat Party Takeover

Apparently, when you’re a billionaire heiress with more money than restraint, the world is your political playground. After bankrolling Mamdani’s crusade against Andrew Cuomo, she’s now shoveling cash at House Democrats like she’s trying to buy the whole chamber at Costco.

One longtime Democratic fundraiser summed it up perfectly: Sure, the “very woke left” is suddenly swooning over Hakeem Jeffries — because nothing says “principled movement” like sprinting toward whoever looks closest to winning.

The DCCC, run by Rep. Suzan DelBene, is dutifully marching under Jeffries’ banner, hoping Republicans’ razor‑thin 218–212 majority collapses under the weight of all this donor enthusiasm. Truly inspiring stuff.

Now, Simons isn’t your typical establishment donor. No, she’s the kind who drops millions into progressive education experiments and then backs candidates who want to reinvent the entire system before lunch. She chairs the Heising‑Simons Foundation, co‑founded with her husband, and her father was hedge‑fund legend James Simons — worth $31.4 billion when he passed. So yes, she’s playing politics on “God mode.”

Last August, she casually tossed a quarter‑million dollars at New Yorkers for Lower Costs, instantly becoming the biggest donor to the group propping up Mamdani’s challenge to Cuomo. Because why not? It’s not like she’s going to run out of zeroes.

Her foundation also threw $1.7 million at a “Racial Justice in Early Mathematics” project — because apparently even math needs to be liberated now.

And she’s not alone. She and three other California mega‑donors have spent $22 million pushing anti‑incarceration prosecutors and cash‑bail opposition. Nothing says “reform” like lighting millions on fire to prove a point.

The NRCC, unsurprisingly, is thrilled. “Democrats aren’t just embracing a socialist, anti‑police agenda — they’re being bankrolled to do it,” their spokesperson Emily Tuttle said, basically waving a giant “We Told You So” banner.

Simons, Patty Quillin, Quinn Delaney, and Kaitlyn Krieger have already dropped nearly $4 million on House Democrats and related committees this cycle. Simons and her foundation did not respond to requests for comment — probably busy wiring another seven‑figure donation somewhere.

Quillin, married to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, gave over $300,000 to the DCCC and then tossed $650,000 at the Working Families Party, because why support one faction when you can bankroll both sides of the intraparty knife fight?

Krieger, married to Instagram co‑founder Mike Krieger, runs a criminal‑justice nonprofit. Delaney, founder of the Akonadi Foundation, funds movements to eliminate structural racism and is married to real‑estate developer Wayne Jordan.