Fact

The Clinton Foundation did not "pay for Chelsea Clinton's wedding." Chelsea did not "receive $84 million from USAID."

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Chelsea Clinton shares a book with a child in a new Too Small to Fail “Family Read, Play & Learn” space at Sixteenth Street Community Health Clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (2020)

Fact: The Clinton family takes no salary or financial benefit from the foundation

Dr. Chelsea Clinton has worked for years to support the Foundation’s work — through public health expertise, leadership, and public and financial support.

Despite this, false internet smears have claimed that Chelsea "takes a financial benefit" from the Foundation — including that she personally received USAID money, and that the Foundation "paid for her wedding." Both of these are patently untrue.

As dozens of independent fact checkers have confirmed — the Clinton Foundation has never taken any money from USAID, and Chelsea Clinton has never taken a penny in salary from the Clinton Foundation

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Fact checkers including Forbes, PolitiFact, Newsweek, and more debunked claims that Chelsea Clinton personally received money from USAID (in fact, the Foundation has never received any funding from USAID).

Several years ago, the Washington Post fact checker found "no evidence" that the Foundation paid for Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

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