10月11日 - 一名美国联邦法官周日阻止特朗普政府使用纳税人资金支付政治广告费用，此前由公共资金资助、赞美美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的电视广告于9月下旬开始播出，引发两党反对。
Oct 11 - A US judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from using taxpayer money to pay for political s, after publicly funded television ads glorifying US President Donald Trump began airing in late September and sparked a bipartisan backlash.
总部位于曼哈顿的美国地区法院法官珍妮弗·罗克隆暂时禁止这些广告的播出，此前包括监督组织“共同事业”在内的原告提起诉讼，称这些广告是旨在帮助共和党候选人在11月3日中期选举中获胜的政治宣传，而非公共服务公告。
Manhattan-based US District Judge Jennifer Rochon temporarily barred the s after plaintiffs including watchdog group Common Cause brought a lawsuit alleging the ads were political propaganda designed to help Republican candidates in the November 3 midterm elections, not public service announcements.
根据周六提交给法院的一份单独声明，特朗普政府在罗克隆作出裁决前已经计划停止播放这些广告。
The Trump administration was already planning to stop running the ads before Rochon's order, according to a separate statement filed with the court on Saturday.
该裁决结束了围绕这些由纳税人资助的广告在中期选举前几周播出的数天争议。
The decision caps days of controversy over the taxpayer-funded s, which were aired in the final weeks before the midterm elections.
“我们不会停止，直到此政府被完全追责，且任何党派的总统都不能再浪费和滥用纳税人资金用于宣传，”共同事业总裁兼首席执行官弗吉尼亚·凯斯·所罗门说道。
“We won’t stop until this administration is held fully accountable, and no president from any party can waste and abuse taxpayer funds for propaganda ever again," said Common Cause President and CEO Virginia Kase Solomón.
特朗普周一表示，他认为这些广告是对“我们伟大的美国”的“积极宣传”，但它们将不再由纳税人资助，白宫本周表示，总统的政治行动委员会MAGA PAC将承担这些广告的未来费用。
Trump on Monday said he considered the ads to be a "positive promotion for our great U.S.A." but that they would no longer be funded by taxpayers, and the White House said this week that the president's political action committee, MAGA PAC, would fund the ads going forward.
白宫表示，特朗普的政治行动委员会不会向纳税人报销已经播出的广告费用。这些广告以一段免责声明结尾，称它们是由美国政府付费的。司法部尚未就法官的裁决立即回应置评请求。
The White House said Trump's political action committee will not reimburse taxpayers for the ads that have already run. The ads end with a disclaimer saying they were paid for by the US government. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the judge's order.
原告还包括一个公共雇员工会和一名阿拉巴马州众议员候选人，他们曾要求罗克隆在周五前暂时阻止这些广告的播出，以免它们在周末节目如美式足球比赛和《周六夜现场》期间播出。
The plaintiffs, which also included a public employee union and a candidate for Alabama state representative, had asked Rochon to temporarily block the ads by Friday so that they could not air during weekend programming such as football games and Saturday Night Live.
民主党官员还在华盛顿联邦法院提起的另一起诉讼中对这些广告提出了质疑。
Democratic Party officials also challenged the ads in a separate suit brought in federal court in Washington.