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Rep. Waters' campaign has paid over $1 million to her daughter over the years House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has paid her daughter tens of thousands of dollars more in campaign funds this year. Campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News show that the congresswoman's campaign has paid her daughter, Karen Waters, a cumulative $74,000 in donor cash through September. The last quarter alone saw over $20,000 go to the younger Waters, which is nearly a third of the median American household income in 2020, according to the Census Bureau. Waters' campaign did not immediately respond to...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has now dished out more than $1 million in campaign payments to her daughter following the 2020 elections.....'Karen Waters' has pocketed $1.13 million for providing an array of services for her mother's campaign.... The majority of the cash is for running a controversial slate-mailer operation, in which Calif. politicians gave money to Waters's campaign in exchange for mailers bearing her endorsement. "Slate mailers" are extremely rare at the federal level. In fact, Waters appears to be the only federal politician to use a slate-mailer operation. As such, the arrangement between her and her daughter has...