Prior scholarship has examined whether policymakers are more responsive to the affluent's policy preferences relative to those of the general public. Some of this research suggests higher influence for the affluent while other work pushes back on these findings by highlighting the large overlap in the policy preferences of the two groups. Yet regardless of the conclusions, this work has lacked data on the groups’ policy priorities, which may influence the issues that politicians address. In this paper, we analyze the first-order question of whether the affluent and general public have similar policy priorities. We do so within the context of the United States, by conducting an original survey on a national sample of the affluent, a comparison sample of the general population, and a comparison sample of campaign donors given that they comprise a politically influential population that overlaps with affluence. The results indicate that the policy priorities of the affluent and donors differ systematically from those of the general population, including when the comparison involves respondents from the same party. The final section of the paper considers how these differences relate to politicians’ policy incentives and evidence on the influence of donors and affluent individuals.