What do Turning Point PAC’s full FEC itemized disbursements show for vendor payments since 2022?
Executive summary
Turning Point PAC, registered as C00814152 on May 2, 2022, reports itemized disbursements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and those reports — accessible through the committee’s Form 3X and the FEC’s disbursement browse tool — contain vendor payments when the committee meets the FEC’s itemization thresholds and reporting rules [1] [2] [3]. The publicly available FEC framework requires itemization of payees who receive $200 or more in the calendar year, includes special memo-item rules for credit-card–charged vendors, and imposes allocation and recordkeeping requirements that shape how vendor payments appear in the filings [4] [5] [6].
1. What the public FEC records are and how Turning Point PAC appears in them
The FEC maintains a committee overview page for Turning Point PAC that aggregates totals and points users to the committee’s itemized transactions; that overview flags that totals derive partly from free-text reporting fields and directs readers to the full list of itemized disbursements for a complete picture [1]. The committee’s detailed filings are published as Form 3X reports and Schedule B attachments, which are the documents that list vendor names, dates, amounts and purposes when reporting thresholds are met [2] [7].
2. Which vendor payments are required to be itemized and therefore should appear
Under FEC rules any vendor who receives aggregate payments of $200 or more from a PAC in a calendar year must be itemized on Schedule B supporting Line 21(b) for operating expenditures; that means vendor name, address, date of the disbursement and purpose must be disclosed when the threshold is hit [7] [4]. Credit-card transactions are subject to additional memo-entry requirements: if a vendor charged to a card exceeds the $200 annual aggregate, the committee must list the actual vendor as a memo entry with date and purpose [5].
3. Limits and quirks in the available FEC data that affect interpretation
The FEC cautions that committee totals can be affected by variations in free-text vendor names — the same vendor may appear under multiple spellings or abbreviations, producing fragmented totals — and that disbursement records are processed and updated on a schedule that can create lags in public data [1] [3]. Filpac and FEC guidance also note that memo entries do not always sum to the original disbursement total and that petty-cash exceptions and reimbursements create additional reporting nuances, so the raw Schedule B lines may under- or over-represent how funds flowed in practice unless reconciled with original receipts [8] [9].
4. What the filings do not allow this reporting to assert
The records and guidance provided show the structure of disclosure and where to find Turning Point PAC’s itemized vendor payments, but the sources supplied here do not include the committee’s actual list of vendor-by-vendor payments since 2022; therefore it is not possible from these documents alone to enumerate specific vendors, dates and dollar amounts paid by Turning Point PAC after 2022 [2] [1]. Any claim about particular vendors or totals beyond the FEC’s published itemized transactions would require inspecting the committee’s Schedule B entries or the FEC disbursement database directly [3].
5. How to get the precise vendor payment list and why journalists should check originals
To obtain the full vendor payments since 2022, the authoritative route is to pull Turning Point PAC’s Form 3X filings and Schedule B itemized disbursements from the FEC’s database or use the FEC “Browse Disbursements” interface filtering by the committee’s ID and date range — those records will show each payee reported above the $200 threshold and credit-card memo entries where applicable [2] [3] [5]. Journalists must also reconcile free-text naming inconsistencies, watch for memo vs. primary-line distinctions, and account for allocation transfers between federal and nonfederal accounts under the PAC’s hybrid structure — all factors that can materially change how vendor totals are read [1] [6].