Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is facing new scrutiny after a Friday report that his campaign spent more than $9,000 at salons, which exposes the Lone Star State's junior senator to possible campaign finance violations. The multiple payments to beauty salons – occurring from 2016 through October of this year – came directly from the Ted Cruz for Senate campaign, according to a HuffPost review of campaign finance paperwork, and could conflict with the Federal Election Commission’s rules against personal use .
The publication noted that it's unclear who received the beauty services paid for with campaign dollars – Cruz "who doesn’t appear to wear makeup or maintain an expensive haircut” – or someone else. The report added that his wife, Heidi Cruz, has played a campaign surrogate role in the past. “The most recent expenditure was $282 at Allure Day Spa in New York City on Oct.
11, between the first and second weeks of Cruz’s bus tour across Texas,” according to HuffPost. ALSO READ: Donald Trump believes he’s going to lose It continued: “Earlier this year, the Cruz campaign spent $310 in June and $876 in February on a makeup artist in Houston. The campaign has listed the same vendor more than a dozen times in FEC reports going back to 2018.
” Cruz didn't immediately comment on the report. A campaign finance expert at Columbia Law School told HuffPost that the expenditures are “personal use,” but added that the question of whether they violate campaign finance .
