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Politics● LowOct 1 · Oct 1, 2026, 2:21 PM

House Democrats call for GAO to investigate government-funded Trump ads

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A pair of House Democrats called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate government-funded ads featuring President Trump that aired last month. Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and George Whitesides (D-Calif.) sent a letter to the GAO leadership asking for an investigation into why “the American people…

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