The recurring donations tactic is just one issue the Federal Election Commission highlighted last week when it published its draft legislation recommendations.
. The FEC, meanwhile, can only abide by its mandate, which isn’t currently explicit enough to close the loophole.
While the law prohibits candidates from using campaign money to pay for personal expenses, it doesn’t explicitly extend that prohibition to other types of political committees—namely, leadership PACs, which officeholders and candidates routinely tap as personal “slush funds.” —that they’ve seen “a substantial number of instances where individuals with access to the funds received by political committees have used such funds to pay for their own personal expenses.”
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