Taxpayer money from U.S. Customs and Border Protection funded the pro-Trump television ads that have drawn bipartisan scrutiny just weeks before November's midterm election , The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. President Donald Trump personally pushed for the ads and was involved in creating them, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The revelation puts a CBP, part of the Department of Homeland Security, behind a campaign that looks far different from its traditional public messaging. CBP routinely runs ads discouraging illegal immigration. These spots instead feature Trump heavily, tout his tax cuts , attack communism and recycle language from his 2024 campaign.
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