S 538 · in committee · significant
Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers (ELECT) Act of 2025
- government reform
What this bill does
- This bill eliminates the voluntary $3 tax checkoff that funds presidential election campaigns.
- It affects taxpayers who currently designate funds to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
- Remaining fund balances will be transferred to the Treasury to reduce the federal deficit.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How would eliminating the $3 tax checkoff affect the ability of candidates to run publicly funded presidential campaigns?
- 02
What evidence exists about how many taxpayers currently use the checkoff, and what would happen to that funding stream?
- 03
Should leftover campaign funds be redirected to deficit reduction, or would alternative uses better serve the original purpose of public campaign financing?
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Sponsor · R-IA
Joni Ernst
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Introduced 2025-02-12
Legislative timeline
2025-02-12 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2025-02-12 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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