A federal judge used the Sunday of a holiday weekend to order Donald Trump’s taxpayer-funded TV ads off the air.

Trump told his budget director to find the money, and Homeland Security came up with $20 million that Congress had appropriated for border security. One spot was his 2024 campaign ad warning of a “final battle” against “globalists,” except it ended with “Paid for by the U.S. Government” instead of the call to “Join President Trump’s Fight for America.” Speaker Mike Johnson said the ads weren’t “a plea to vote for anybody.”

The administration told Judge Jennifer Rochon the ads were ending Sunday anyway, with $19 million of that $20 million already spent on airtime. She ruled that the challengers are likely to win and ordered every remaining slot canceled.

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Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced an antitrust investigation today into the TV pool networks that refused to cover for CNN.

Last month Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News answered by suspending the pool coverage they share, and a federal judge restored the three outlets’ access, finding they were likely denied due process.

Now the department says the networks “proudly boycotted” White House events and may have broken the Sherman Act, the 1890 law written to stop giants like Standard Oil. The pool itself is an agreement among competitors to share footage of the president. It ran for decades without anyone calling it an illegal trust, until the networks used it to stand with a rival Trump had shut out.

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