Politics | Hillary Clinton Clinton Lends Campaign $1M as Debts Mount Reticent donors make mountain of liabilities difficult to pay off By Jason Farago Posted Jul 21, 2008 6:07 AM CDT Copied Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, is joined onstage by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a campaign stop in New York, Thursday, July 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Hillary Clinton lent her suspended presidential campaign an additional $1 million at the end of last month, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. The newest self-loan—the New York senator has now lent herself $13.2 million—underscores how much difficulty she is facing in retiring her mountain of debt. A Clinton spokesman told the New York Times that the new loan was to "pay immediately outstanding debts." Although Barack Obama cut Clinton a $2,300 check as a symbolic gesture, his supporters have been reluctant to help his former opponent pay off her liabilities; in June, the Clinton campaign spent $5.4 million but took in only $2.7 million. Other filings with the FEC show that John McCain's campaign has sharply increased spending—he spent $26 million in June, more than double what he spent in May. Read These Next It started with failure to say 'thank you,' ended with murder. Freak accident kills a woman as she cleans her car. It landed on the 4th try. There wasn't enough fuel for a 5th. Multiple people are dead or missing after an explosion in Tennessee. Report an error