# Lower Costs Now **Lower Costs Now** is a federal political committee, FEC **C00961276**, filing from **PO Box 15845, Washington DC 20003**, treasurer of record **Steven Mele**. It is the committee buying for **[[Josh Turek]]** in [[IA-Sen-2026]]: **$1,126,344.00 in a single Schedule E line** supporting Turek, expenditure date 2026-10-10, placed through **[[Waterfront Strategies]]** (file **2020164**, received 2026-10-12), plus **$658,401.89** on receipt date 2026-10-10. ⚠️ **Committee type is OPEN.** It has not been classified against the FEC's processed committee index on this page. Per the FEC Back-Sweep Standard's open method item on Form 1 field 21, this vault does not infer a committee type from a registration document or from a committee's name. | Item | Detail | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00961276** | | Address of record | **PO Box 15845, Washington DC 20003** | | Treasurer | **Steven Mele** | | Disclosed spending | **$1,126,344.00** (file 2020164) · **$658,401.89** (receipt date 2026-10-10) | | Aggregate on the 2026-10-10 row | **$4,503,062.91** — filer-dependent, **not** a total (Rule 4c) | | Donors disclosed | **none** — Q3 Form 3X due **2026-10-15** | 🔴 **Its address of record is shared with two other federal committees.** [[United Futures PAC]] (C00960385) and [[New Path PAC]] (C00963470) both file from PO Box 15845, Washington DC 20003 — the first of them the source of $6,250,000.00 behind the anti-[[Roger Marshall]] programme in [[KS-Sen-2026]]. See [[PO Box 15845 DC Three Committee Cluster October 2026]], which also sets out what a shared mailbox does and does not establish. ## Open questions - **Who funds it.** Q3 Form 3X due 2026-10-15 — the only route on the public record, and the cheapest high-value query on this task's list. - The ~**$3.4 million** of earlier Iowa spending implied by the aggregate column. - Whether it files in any race other than [[IA-Sen-2026]]. - Its FEC-classified committee type. ## See Also - [[United Futures PAC]] · [[New Path PAC]] · [[PO Box 15845 DC Three Committee Cluster October 2026]] - [[IA-Sen-2026]] · [[Josh Turek]] · [[Waterfront Strategies]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] · [[Organizations Hub]]