FORGE BATTERY

• VENN STRATEGIES $320,000 Outside firm · 7 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• 2026 $200,000 3 filings
• 2025 $120,000 4 filings

• Defense 7
• Manufacturing 7

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• Defense, Dept of (DOD) 6
• Energy, Dept of 6
• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 6
• SENATE 6
• Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) 5
• Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 4
• Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC) 2
• Executive Office of the President (EOP) 1