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2026-09-28 · ABC News (US) · Politics

White House airs more taxpayer-funded ads promoting Trump

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2026-09-24 · ABC News (US) · Politics

Is the Trump administration's campaign-style ad on Fox News taxpayer-funded?

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2026-09-15 · ABC News (US) · Politics

Kennedy Center board's meeting to 'exclusively' focus on closure, court filing says

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2026-09-15 · ABC News (US) · Politics

Kennedy Center warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name is added to building

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2026-09-17 · ABC News (US) · Politics

Kennedy niece says Trump holding Kennedy Center 'hostage' amid battle over name

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2026-09-05 · ABC News (US) · Politics

Vietnam vets ask judge to block excavation work on Trump's 'triumphal arch'

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2026-09-05 · ABC News (US)

🔮 The motion also points to the demolition of the White House East Wing, which happened without notice and before courts could weigh in. assertive

2026-09-15 · ABC News (US)

🔮 Warning of "certain fiscal collapse within weeks" and possible bankruptcy, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board of trustees could vote as early as Tuesday on another resolution adding President Donald Trump's name to the building facade, with officials arguing it is necessary to secure his fundraising support, as well as a measure that would immediately close the center's main building. mixed

2026-09-15 · ABC News (US)

🔮 Tuesday's meeting of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board will now focus exclusively on the "necessary closure" of the center, and not on additional ways to honor President Donald Trump, the Trump administration said in an overnight federal court filing. mixed

2026-09-17 · ABC News (US)

🔮 One of former President John F. Kennedy's nieces accused President Donald Trump of taking the Kennedy Center "hostage" after Trump said Tuesday that he wouldn't spend congressionally approved funding for the center's renovation unless the building also bears his name. assertive

2026-09-17 · ABC News (US)

🔮 Trump's controversial triumphal arch will have 'adverse effects' on landscape, administration acknowledges The adverse effects "cannot be fully avoided," the administration acknowledged. assertive

2026-09-24 · ABC News (US)

🔮 Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee who would help lead congressional oversight efforts if his party retakes the House this fall, condemned the ad on X. "This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes," Raskin wrote. assertive

2026-09-24 · ABC News (US)

🔮 A little-known federal historic preservation agency said Thursday it's giving up on trying to get Virginia and Washington, D.C., on board behind plans for President Donald Trump's triumphal arch and indicates the administration will move forward with the project anyway. The Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (ACHP) wrote in a letter to the National Park Service that it is "terminating" required consultation with local officials about ways to minimize the adverse effects of the arch, which would be built at the foot of Arlington Memorial Cemetery across the Potomac River on National Park Service land. assertive

2026-09-28 · ABC News (US)

🔮 Critics say the ads could violate federal propaganda law. assertive

2026-10-10 · ABC News (US)

🔮 The committee will be composed of top Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas and Keith Sonderling, the acting director of the Office of Government Ethics. assertive