Does a video falsely attributed to the Washington Post show Billie Eilish received $120 million from the Democratic Party? No, that's not true: The video uses clips from Eilish's real December 2024 Vanity Fair interview and adds completely fabricated captions. The Washington Post never reported that Eilish received such an amount from the Democratic Party.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) posted by the @Emprender_Zrii account on X on Sept. 22, 2026. It read, translated from the original Spanish:
Billie Eilish has received 120 million dollars from the Democratic Party of the United States.
Taylor Swift is willing to support the Democrats and gender reassignment surgeries for minors in exchange for 500 million dollars.
This is what a screenshot from the video looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @Emprender_Zrii on X.)
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
Billie Eilish ha recibido 120 millones de dólares del Partido Demócrata de EE. UU.
-- Zrii Bogota (@Emprender_Zrii) September 22, 2026
Taylor Swift está dispuesta a apoyar a los demócratas y las cirugías de reasignación de género para menores a cambio de 500 millones de dólares. pic.twitter.com/zMH5SyZLFS
This fact check will focus on the claim regarding singer Eilish. A fact check about the fake New York Times video about Taylor Swift can be found here.
In the 47-second video posted on X, Eilish is wearing a black and white jersey. This matches her outfit in her December 2024 interview with Vanity Fair. This screenshot from the Vanity Fair video posted on the @VanityFairMagazine YouTube channel matches Eilish's outfit in the video posted on X:
(Image source: @VanityFairMagazine on YouTube.)
The video posted on X has the logo of the Washington Post on the upper left corner. The captions in the video claim "Billie Eilish received $120 million from the U.S. Democratic Party."
Lead Stories searched the Washington Post (archived here) for a news story reporting Eilish receiving $120 million from the Democratic Party and did not find any matching reports.
Had the Washington Post actually reported Eilish had received $120 million from the Democratic Party, this would have been a major news story. Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and found the Lead Stories debunk regarding the X post about Swift and Eilish but no other news reports. Lead Stories also searched Yahoo News (archived here) and did not find any credible reports of Eilish receiving $120 million from the U.S. Democratic Party.
Lead Stories searched the Federal Election Commission website (archived here) for disbursements made by the Democratic National Committee from 2020 to 2026 and did not find any payments to Eilish. This is a screenshot of the FEC website search:
(Image source: FEC website.)
