Thursday, 28 Mar 2024

Andrew Yang unveils plan to give 10 families $1,000 per month

Andrew Yang’s longshot campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination generated some attention on Twitter earlier this week by promising he would do “something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history.”

On Thursday night in Houston, Yang unveiled that something: His campaign will give 10 additional families $1,000 per month for a year — an offer some experts may be a violation of federal election law.

Yang, whose signature policy proposal would be to give every adult American $1,000 a month, has been giving monthly checks in that amount to a New Hampshire family month out of his own pocket. His new offer would be to distribute the money from his campaign funds — a move that could run afoul of a Federal Election Commission rule prohibiting the use of campaign money for “personal use.”

“It’s time to trust ourselves more than our politicians — so I’m going to do something unprecedented tonight,” Yang said in his opening statement. “My campaign is now going to give a Freedom Dividend of $1,000 a month to 10 American families, someone watching this at home right now.”

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