这段30秒广告中注明：“美国政府出资制作。”特朗普政府似乎正在福克斯新闻投放一则新广告，民主党人批评其违反了禁止将税款用于政治用途的联邦规定。
Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded The 30-second spot includes the disclosure "Paid for by the U.S. Government."
迈阿密当地一位哥伦比亚广播公司记者周三晚上在X平台发帖称，他在收看福克斯新闻时发现了这则广告。
The Trump administration is running a new pro-Trump on cable news featuring President Donald Trump boasting about his record and vowing the United States "will never be a communist country." The 30-second spot, which is labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government," ran repeatedly this week on conservative cable news channels Fox News and Newsmax across several media markets, according to AdImpact, a media buying and tracking firm, and cost roughly $14,000.
据媒体监测机构TVEyes称，这段包含“美国政府出资制作”字样的30秒广告一夜之间至少播出了三次。
The Trump administration is running a new pro-Trump on cable news featuring President Donald Trump boasting about his record and vowing the United States "will never be a communist country." The 30-second spot, which is labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government," ran repeatedly this week on conservative cable news channels Fox News and Newsmax across several media markets, according to AdImpact, a media buying and tracking firm, and cost roughly $14,000.
如果民主党今年秋天重新夺回众议院控制权，杰米·拉斯金将协助领导国会的监督工作。作为众议院司法委员会地位最高的民主党人，拉斯金谴责了这则广告。他写道：“这可能构成重罪盗窃罪，以及为政治竞选目的侵占政府财产罪。任何参与制作这则广告或使用政府资源制作该广告的政府雇员，都违反了《哈奇法》。按照多项禁止将政府资源用于政治竞选的联邦道德规定，这种行为显然是不道德的。”《哈奇法》限制联邦雇员，以及部分参与联邦资助项目或在其中工作的州政府、华盛顿哥伦比亚特区和地方政府工作人员从事某些政治活动。
The White House told ABC News the ad is a "public service announcement" and argued that it is "educational" and not political." "These public service announcements are about reminding Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad. The ad is educational and unapologetically patriotic. We should be proud of our country," a White House spokesperson said in a statement.
美国广播公司新闻网（ABC News）就置评请求白宫回应时，白宫称这则新广告是一则“公益广告”，并辩称其具有“教育意义”，而非政治广告。白宫发言人在一份声明中说：“这些公益广告旨在提醒美国人热爱自己的国家，并了解这个国家在国内、边境和海外有哪些值得捍卫的东西。这则广告具有教育意义，毫不掩饰地体现了爱国主义精神。我们应当为自己的国家感到骄傲。”
"The PSAs are clearly not political," a White House official added in a statement. "The President is not on the ballot and the ads don't have a call to action."
“这些公益广告显然与政治无关，”一位白宫官员在声明中表示，“总统并未参与这些广告的制作，而且这些广告也没有任何呼吁公众采取行动的内容。”该广告与9月13日上传到白宫YouTube页面上的一段30秒视频完全相同；那段视频的标题是《美国永远不会成为共产主义国家》，但与它在福克斯电视台播出时的标题不同（当时该视频的标题并未被明确标注）。
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 "This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes," Raskin wrote. "It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns." The Hatch Act restricts certain political activities by federal employees and by some state, Washington, D.C., and local government workers who are involved or work in federally funded programs.
在广告中，可以听到特朗普说：“让我们共同击败美国的共产主义、社会主义和马克思主义。美国永远不会成为共产主义国家。”屏幕上用亮红色的字体显示着“历史上规模最大的减税措施”、“重振美国制造业”以及“维护法律与秩序、支持警察”的字样，同时快速切换着特朗普总统的照片。
The ad appears identical to a 30-second video uploaded to the White House YouTube page on Sept. 13, titled "America Will Never Be a Communist Country," that is not labeled as it was when it aired on Fox. In the ad, Trump is heard saying, "Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America. America will never be a communist country." "LARGEST TAX CUTS IN HISTORY," "REIGNITING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING," and "DEFEND LAW AND ORDER AND POLICE" are shown on screen in bright red letters, as the ad rolls through photos of President Trump in rapid succession.
广告中还包含了UFC首席执行官达纳·怀特在共和党全国代表大会上的演讲片段，他在演讲中称特朗普是“我见过最坚强、最具韧性的人”。根据美国国会研究服务局（Congressional Research Service）的说法，没有任何一个机构负责监督政府部门广告预算的支出情况。
The ad includes a clip of UFC CEO Dana White's speech from the Republican National Convention, calling Trump "the toughest, most resilient person I've ever met." According to the Congressional Research Service, no single agency is responsible for oversight of department advertising budgets.
对于公共资金如何用于制作公益广告，存在一些明确的规定：根据为政府机构提供资金的拨款法案，禁止将这些资金用于“未经国会授权的宣传活动或宣传目的”。
The ad includes a clip of UFC CEO Dana White's speech from the Republican National Convention, calling Trump "the toughest, most resilient person I've ever met." According to the Congressional Research Service, no single agency is responsible for oversight of department advertising budgets.
“这看起来只是些空洞的口号罢了，”2014年那份研究报告的作者凯文·科萨尔（Kevin Kosar）告诉ABC新闻；他目前是美国右翼智库American Enterprise Institute的高级研究员。
There are several restrictions on how public funds can be used for PSAs, including a ban on using funds for "publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress" in appropriations bills that fund government agencies. "This looks like puffery," Kevin Kosar, the author of the 2014 CRS report who is now a senior fellow with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told ABC News.
特朗普政府（尤其是国土安全部）曾因一项耗资数百万美元的广告活动而受到批评——该广告活动由当时的国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）主导，呼吁民众“自愿自我驱逐出境”；这项广告活动的资金全部来自纳税人的税款。
The Trump administration -- specifically the Department of Homeland Security --has faced criticism for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that featured then-Secretary Kristi Noem urging "self-deportation" and the $220 million taxpayer-funded campaign behind it.
特朗普当时曾否认自己批准了这项广告的发布。他在3月份对NBC新闻表示：“我对这个广告并不满意；我当初竞选总统时花费的资金都比这少。”
Trump pushed back then on suggestions that he had approved that ad. "I wasn't thrilled with it. I spent less money than that to become president," he told NBC News in March.