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Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads

washingtonpost.com · Scott Nover, Aaron Schaffer and Aoife Walsh · last updated

A federal judge issued a temporary order Sunday blocking the Trump administration from airing taxpayer-funded campaign-style television commercials. But the administration blew past a Sunday evening deadline and ran two of the ads into the early hours of Monday, advertising data from AdImpact shows.