Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers (ELECT) Act of 2025
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on FinanceReferred To · 2025-02-12
Previously
- Finance CommitteeReferred To · 2025-02-12
Plain-English Summary
Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers (ELECT) Act of 2025 This bill terminates (1) the taxpayer election (on the federal income tax form) to designate $3 of income tax liability to be paid to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (which would otherwise go into the general fund of the Treasury) for financing of presidential election campaigns, (2) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, and (3) the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account. The bill also requires funds remaining in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury for the sole purpose of reducing the deficit.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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