Government spent $10 million on pro-Trump ads after president said super PAC would fund

B&W photo of President Trump – October 10, 2026. Attribution: “P202601010MR-1596” by The White House via Flickr. United States Government Work. Article by Tamara Keith. NPR – October 12, 2026.

Ads promoting President Trump and his policies continued to be paid for by the U.S. government well after Trump announced he would have his MAGA Inc. super PAC take over funding the ads and kept airing despite a federal judge ordering them to come down. An NPR analysis of data from AdImpact finds that nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars has been spent to air the ads since the campaign began in late September. Nearly $10 million of that total was spent after Oct. 5, when the president pledged to fund it privately in a post on Truth Social. […]

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