JPMorgan Chase has confirmed it will suspend all political funding in the wake of the violence at the US Capitol Building last week, becoming the latest in a growing list of American corporations to cut funding since the attack. 

A JPMorgan spokesperson told AFP on Sunday that the bank’s political action committee will stop making financial contributions to both Republican and Democratic leaders for at least six months. 

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“The focus of business leaders, political leaders, civic leaders right now should be on governing and getting help to those who desperately need it most,” the bank’s head of corporate responsibility, Peter Scher said. 

“There will be plenty of time for campaigning later,” he added. 

A number of other firms have specifically blocked funding for the Republican party officials who voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. 

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A mob of angry Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol shortly after the president reiterated baseless election conspiracies to the crowd. Five people died in the ensuing riot, including one police officer.

Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company and the AFL-CIO — the largest trade union federation in the US — have since called for Trump’s immediate departure from office.

Hospitality giant Marriott International said it will halt donations to “those who voted against the certification of the election,” a spokesperson told AFP Sunday.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association of health insurance companies had already announced Friday it intended to suspend all contributions to “those lawmakers who voted to undermine our democracy.”

“While a contrast of ideas, ideological differences and partisanship are all part of our politics, weakening our political system and eroding public confidence in it must never be,” the group’s director general, Kim Keck, said in a statement.