{"id":79246,"date":"2026-09-27T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/republican-senator-criticizes-white-house-for-taxpayer-funded-trump-ads\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:55:02","slug":"republican-senator-criticizes-white-house-for-taxpayer-funded-trump-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/republican-senator-criticizes-white-house-for-taxpayer-funded-trump-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump \u2018public service announcements\u2019 air before midterms<\/p>\n<p>As the White House expands a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s political agenda before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-midterm-elections-2026\">November midterm elections<\/a>, US senator John Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xcAm_R6UfCw?si=cxz_VwC6CqZVCWhH&amp;t=385\">told CBS News<\/a> on Sunday \u201cthere ought to be a rule\u201d against such spending \u2013 before tacitly admitting such spending is \u201cprobably\u201d illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, the US president\u2019s fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a>, was asked by Margaret Brennan, the CBS Face the Nation host, about the White House spending to air multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/25\/white-house-pro-trump-ad-fox\">ads featuring Trump<\/a> \u2013 including one that was produced for his 2024 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/27\/john-kennedy-white-house-trump-ad-tax-money\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump \u2018public service announcements\u2019 air before midterms As the White House expands a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote Donald Trump\u2019s political agenda before the November midterm elections, US senator John Kennedy told CBS News on Sunday \u201cthere ought to be a rule\u201d against such spending \u2013 before &#8230; <a title=\"Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/republican-senator-criticizes-white-house-for-taxpayer-funded-trump-ads\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}