Sean Duffy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Transportation secretary, tapped his old campaign funds to pay expenses to the Ritz-Carlton, raising questions of whether he ran afoul of campaign finance rules.
Duffy, a former GOP congressman, held $2.1 million in his principal campaign committee as of Oct. 16, money that he has drawn on since leaving office in 2019, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of Federal Election Commission documents. Duffy for Wisconsin, his campaign committee, disclosed paying the Ritz-Carlton more than $5,700 in March for what it described as “travel,” $2,800 in 2021, and $3,300 in 2020, FEC records ...