# Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: ‘For the country’

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- ABC News, 2026-10-01 21:27 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-defends-spending-millions-taxpayer-funded-promotional-ads/story?id=136922737

> The Trump administration is facing mounting questions over plans to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on television ads promoting its policies in the weeks before the midterm elections. Trump defended the spending as being “for the country.”

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