PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: Former President Donald Trump said that Democrats are racing to pass a bill that would destroy the integrity of elections and automatically register poor people to vote.
In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Trump reeled off multiple objections to H.R. 1, including that it automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote.
Trump’s statement is misleading. The Democrats’ bill to expand voting rights would require multiple government agencies to help eligible people register to vote when they apply for assistance, but it doesn’t single out applicants for programs associated with welfare. And Trump omits that public assistance agencies already play a role in helping people register to vote. H.R. 1 would expand that effort.
H R 1: The Path to Democracy in America
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Jim Jordan hit with FEC investigation over $2 million in campaign donations after Trump s election
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Jim Jordan Under Scrutiny for Nearly $3 Million in Unreported Campaign Funds Roger Sollenberger © Provided by The Daily Beast Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty
This week, the campaign committee for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), received ten notices from the Federal Election Commission flagging discrepancies on its books totaling nearly $3 million dollars, and dating back over two years. The campaign claims that the errors slipped through the cracks amid a record fundraising surge, and that it actually has more money on the books now, but experts say that the dollar amount errors totaling some $2.87 million may trigger an FEC investigation.
The errors also appear connected to newly developed, largely hidden payment systems in the murky world of Republican digital advertising, where vendors not only receive direct spending, but take cuts from fundraising as well.