{"id":79882,"date":"2026-10-12T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-judge-orders-temporary-halt-to-taxpayer-funded-pro-trump-tv-ads\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:55:47","slug":"federal-judge-orders-temporary-halt-to-taxpayer-funded-pro-trump-tv-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-judge-orders-temporary-halt-to-taxpayer-funded-pro-trump-tv-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge orders temporary halt to taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York judge also orders administration to cancel remaining portion of a $20m advertising purchase<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">administration<\/a> to temporarily halt the broadcast of taxpayer-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/07\/democrats-sue-trump-taxpayer-funds-ads\">television ads<\/a> promoting the president ahead of the 3 November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Effective as of 6.45pm ET on Sunday, US district judge Jennifer L Rochon of the southern district of New York issued a temporary restraining order aimed at the ads that is meant to stay in effect for at least 14 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/12\/judge-orders-halt-taxpayer-funded-pro-trump-ads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York judge also orders administration to cancel remaining portion of a $20m advertising purchase A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump\u2019s administration to temporarily halt the broadcast of taxpayer-funded television ads promoting the president ahead of the 3 November midterm elections. Effective as of 6.45pm ET on Sunday, US district judge Jennifer L Rochon &#8230; <a title=\"Federal judge orders temporary halt to taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-judge-orders-temporary-halt-to-taxpayer-funded-pro-trump-tv-ads\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal judge orders temporary halt to taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV 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-79882","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\/79882","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=79882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}