Aspen Institute employees contributed more than $800,000 to Democratic candidates and causes between 2017 and 2021, even as their employer got $38.2 million in federal funds and paid for hundreds of foreign junkets taken by Members of Congress and their staffs. The Washington, D.C.-based liberal non-profit has 609 employees and received more than $131 million in contributions and grants from all sources in 2020, according to Aspen’s latest available IRS tax return. Employees who identified Aspen as their employer made 3,194 federal campaign donations to President Joe Biden and other Democratic presidential and congressional candidates, as well as to Democratic party committees, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data examined by The Epoch Times. Aspen is one of five highly influential non-profits recently identified by researchers at Open the Books as collectively receiving $102 million in federal funds between 2017 and 2021. Between them, the five non-profits paid for 925 …