Trump's PAC won't pay taxpayers back for his ads
The Trump administration created multiple television advertisements promoting Trump and his policies using federal taxpayer funds, which critics said violated laws against using government money for campaign purposes. After facing criticism, Trump said his super PAC would pay for future ads. However, Trump has not committed to repaying the federal funds that were already spent on the ad campaign.
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6 developments- Sep 30Only center coverage:Trump campaign ads paid with public money violate federal law, critics say
- Oct 1Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: 'For the country'
- Oct 2‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign
- Oct 5Trump says his super PAC will now pay for controversial taxpayer-funded promotional ads
- Oct 6Trump doesn’t commit to repaying federal funds already spent on controversial ads
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