Money from corporations
What they say
He says he has never taken a dime of corporate money, and his campaign says it is funded by people, not corporations.
“never taken a dime of corporate money”
What the record shows ·
Through July 15, 2026 his committee's filings carry 23 contributions from political committees, $71,845.23 in all, and none is from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. They come from hybrid PACs ($27,825 from six), leadership PACs ($17,000 from four), labor union PACs ($15,500 from four: the UAW's, National Nurses United's, the Communications Workers' and the Office and Professional Employees'), and the rest from other PACs and from committees named for four other candidates. He reported no party money and no joint fundraising transfers. Contributions from individuals were $14,408,058.06 of $14,514,335.93 in receipts.
Limit: A corporation cannot give to a federal campaign directly, so corporate money reaches a candidate through a corporation's PAC, and that is what the filings were read for. They show none. The home page's wording that the campaign is "100% funded by people like you" is not literal: about half of one per cent of receipts came from PACs, including labor unions, and the card does not treat that as corporate money. He resigned as Detroit's health director in February 2017 to run for governor of Michigan, and that campaign's state filings, which "never" also covers, were not read; the claim is tested here against his federal committee only. The filings run to July 15, 2026, and the October quarterly report will extend them.