I think from the outside, this looks very wrong, but in the long-run, I think it's an actually good idea if they did it for these two reasons, which I personally believe it's one or both of these.

1) The agency will probably use the money to create a fund in the senator's name.I mean, giving this much money to a campaign doesn't matter anymore (thought it could be put to better use). I think the money is just gonna go to a certain fund or to the employees who put a lot of effort and heart into the now lost-cause campaign.

2) It might be to help the organizers pay back the people who invested in the campaign, whose investments are now...pointless. Since the money invested in the campaign is no longer helping, nor even finishing, the campaign effort, they probably would want their money back. So while the campaign managers do that, the government might be helping them out. It's like the Micheal Jackson concerts. When he died, the money put into the concerts that were never started were refunded (well the tickets were, sponsors probably will eventually want their money back too).

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