“Says Joe Cunningham voted for $5 million in taxpayer funds to go into his and other politicians’ campaigns to pay for personal expenses and TV ads.”
What PolitiFact found
The vote was for a bill that would provide, with restrictions, federal matching funds for House and presidential campaigns, with a limit of $5 million per qualified House candidate. The money would not come from taxes.
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In short
Nancy Mace (Republican candidate for U.S. House seat in South Carolina) made this claim around 6 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 October 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Nancy Mace has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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