Warnock more than doubles income since becoming senator

Georgia Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock more than doubled his income after joining Congress, according to his financial disclosure records. 

Most of Warnock's income outside of his estimated $174,000 annual Senate salary comes from his book deal and the church in which has served as senior pastor for nearly two decades.

Warnock made an estimated $541,965 in 2021, his financial disclosure filed earlier this month shows. This includes $120,964 from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and $243,750 from Penguin Random House as an advance on his memoir.

In 2020, before he became senator, Warnock earned $221,602, including his $199,999 salary from the church and various other speaking fees.

The report comes after the National Republican Senatorial Committee filed a Federal Election Commission complaint earlier this summer, claiming that Warnock violated campaign finance laws by using political donations to defend himself in a 2019 lawsuit.