{"id":14354,"date":"2024-12-13T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14354"},"modified":"2024-12-13T21:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:03:25","slug":"wisconsin-rep-says-loopholes-that-allow-foreign-billionaires-to-influence-elections-have-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14354","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Rep. Says Loopholes That Allow Foreign Billionaires to Influence Elections Have to End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-rep-says-loopholes-that-allow-foreign-billionaires-to-influence-elections-have-to-end\/jtnews\/2024\/12\/13\/\">https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-rep-says-loopholes-that-allow-foreign-billionaires-to-influence-elections-have-to-end\/jtnews\/2024\/12\/13\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Charlotte Hazard<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said Thursday that loopholes that allow foreign billionaires to influence U.S. elections need to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, we\u2019ve identified a loophole that allows foreign billionaires to transfer money into United States charities, 501C 3\u2019s,\u201d Steil said on the \u201cJust the News, No Noise\u201d TV show. \u201cForty percent of those funds can \u2026 under current law, be transferred into a super PAC to run political ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steil has been conducting hearings for the past few months on election integrity regarding suspicious fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>He currently chairs the House Administration Committee, which uncovered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/rep-bryan-steil-raises-concerns-about-people-being-unwitting-straw-donors\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">a suspicious pattern of donations<\/a>\u00a0from individuals with net worths too small to donate what has been credited to them via ActBlue reports to the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, a foreign billionaire can transfer an unlimited amount of money into the United States and 40% of that can be used for political purposes,\u201d Steil said. \u201cThis is a clear loophole that allows foreign money to be impacting U.S. elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the House Administration Committee will hold a hearing on this specific issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to dive in our next hearing about what is occurring, what needs to be done to change it and setting up the conversation for the American people,\u201d Steil said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em> Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/wisconsin-rep-says-loopholes-allow-foreign-billionaires-influence\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Just the News<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-rep-says-loopholes-that-allow-foreign-billionaires-to-influence-elections-have-to-end\/jtnews\/2024\/12\/13\/\">Wisconsin Rep. Says Loopholes That Allow Foreign Billionaires to Influence Elections Have to End<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\">The Wisconsin Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-rep-says-loopholes-that-allow-foreign-billionaires-to-influence-elections-have-to-end\/jtnews\/2024\/12\/13\/ by Charlotte Hazard \u00a0 Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14355,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354\/revisions\/14355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}