Americans for Prosperity Foundation Chairman David Koch speaks in Orlando, Florida, in August, 2013. CREDIT: AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack The multi-billionaire Koch brothers are planning to spend a staggering $889 million in the 2016 election cycle, more than double what they spent in 2012. Politico called it “a historic sum that in many ways would mark Charles and David Koch and their fellow conservative megadonors as more powerful than the official Republican Party.” Remember, the Koch family put together the Tea Party movement and much of the modern right-wing infrastructure.