Senator Doge Caucus pushes to end presidential candidate “Slush Fund”: “welfare for politicians”

Exclusive: To celebrate President's Day, Senator Doge is trying to reclaim $400 million in sitting in the “Slush Fund” set up to support presidential candidates who have not produced fruit since Y2K.

By eliminating the remaining costs of the campaign from the Taxpayer (Election) Act, Sen. Joni Ernst said he would like to repay the accounts she calls “politician welfare.”

“This President's Day is the day I'm fighting for office integrity, as the last thing I need to spend on taxes is a more political offensive ad,” said Ernst, R-Iowa. said.

“There's no better way to pay back $36 trillion in debt than reimbursing politicians' welfare. Washington should work to benefit all Americans, not itself.”

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Ernst, chairman of the Doge Caucus in the Upper Chamber, said the fund has not been successfully used in decades.

The last candidate to win the championship to withdraw from the fund was Texas Governor George W. Bush in 2000.

Since then, a few failed candidates have used it, including former Vice President Mike Pence and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Both in the 2024 cycle.

Pence's campaign reportedly received more than $1 million from the fund among the GOP's major bids, but Stein took advantage of $380,000.

The late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) also received $84.1 million from the fund in 2008. The FEC release at the time suggests that candidates from major political parties are entitled to a $20 million adjustment to the cost of living adjustments up to 1974.

Account refunds first came to mind as one of several suggestions in a Doge-centric November letter from Ernst to Elon Musk and Vivek Lamaswamy.

Stein said to Fox News Digital that the candidates' fund has been “raided” for $375 million, and Democrats are also trying to provide public funds “out of reach of grassroots candidates” through HR-1. He said he tried to move the fund's effectiveness through HR-1 (through HR-1), action for people during the Biden era).

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A checkbox on the IRS' 1099 tax form asks the filer if they wish to pay $3 to the fund.

“That's outrageous,” Stein said, “calls efforts to end the funds partially of bipartisan anti-democratic efforts to curb competition in big-popular elections, especially when voters are legalized for big big. By denying the option of supporting public funding candidates who refused to bribery, they called for efforts to curb competition in the presidential election. Corporate contributions.

Stein adds that the majority of voters are seeking presidential candidates outside of the two major parties, indicating that they “do such poor jobs” representing Americans in a Gallup survey.

“Publicly funded campaigns are an antidote to massive legalized corruption that brings more money into billionaires than ever before. Americans hate taking over electoral corporations “Stein said.

“As life is increasingly unaffected by everyday Americans, billionaires' wealth surges, while access to publicly funded elections, comprehensive discussions, ranked electoral votes and obstructive votes We cannot stop the demand to end our sales of democracy through simple reforms, including the end of the law.

“Eliminating public funds deny voters the option to support candidates who reject voters' politics.”

According to familiar sources, FEC rules also allow candidates to continue seeking public funds for campaign debt.

IRS Code 9006 dates the fund at least in the 1970s, allowing eligible candidates to be paid by the fund “when certified by the (Federal Election) Commission.”

“The amount paid to such candidates shall be under the control of such candidates.”

In 2014, a portion of the Presidential Campaign Fund was allocated to support political party practices. I was redirected to pediatric cancer research through the Parliamentary Act.

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Then a rep. R-Miss. Greg Harper, of the author, drafted a bill signed by President Barack Obama, diverting such funds to the NIH Research Initiative.

R-Va. Eric Cantor, the then majority leader of the film, heard about a young Leesburg girl suffering from the disease and named Gabriela Miller Kids First Research Act in her name. It gave key leadership driving forces. .

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