The White House diverted funds from Customs and Border Protection for national ads featuring President Donald Trump without alerting senior agency leaders.
A new report from NBC News on Thursday revealed that CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and other senior leaders were excluded from the decision-making process that led the agency to use its funding for legally ambiguous Trump advertisements.
“They didn’t sign off on it,” a Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News of CBP leaders. “They were thinking, ‘There’s no way they’re going to try to take the funding from CBP for those ads.’”
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