[Brief] White House Faces Fresh Backlash Over Expanded Taxpayer Funded Trump Promotional Campaign
CNN reports that the White House has been expanding a taxpayer-funded promotional campaign that critics describe as a muscular political-style pitch for President Trump. The latest wave of content has triggered fresh bipartisan criticism over the boundary between official communications and political promotion. Several lawmakers and press-freedom groups have called for stricter oversight of government communications spending and questioned whether such content crosses the line of routine government information.
The White House has said the campaign is intended to inform the public about administration policy outcomes and priorities and falls within the normal scope of government communications. Critics argue that using taxpayer funds to produce and air political-style promotion with a strong personal tone raises serious questions about how public resources are being used and have asked the relevant departments to provide more detailed information on the campaign’s reach, funding and decision-making process.
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