During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden pledged to target "dark money" by increasing transparency requirements in election spending.

Among the policies Biden promised are mandated disclosure of the funding for groups that advocate for or against candidates for federal office, and creation of a single website for online ads that discloses who paid for the ads and how they were targeted online.

These goals are addressed in the voting and elections bill known as H.R. 1, which passed the House with only Democrats voting in favor. These provisions remained in the bill after it moved to the Senate.

However, in June, the Senate voted 50-50 to proceed with debate on its version of the bill, falling 10 votes short of the 60 required to move forward. That vote effectively shelved the legislation in the Senate, unless Democratic leaders can convince holdouts within their conference, including Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to agree to a carve-out to the 60-vote threshold for election-related bills.

As is the case with other election-related promises that were passed by the House in H.R. 1 but are now blocked in the Senate, this promise is moving to Stalled.