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Trump Says He Did Not Sign off on Border Security Ad Campaign
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March 5, 2026

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a press conference to provide an update on border security and drug seizures along the U.S. Mexico border, accompanied by U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks and a Customs and Border Protection official (not pictured), in Otay Mesa, San Diego, California, U.S., February 12, 2026. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

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President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he did not sign off on a $200 million border security advertising campaign featuring U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“I never knew anything about it,” Trump told Reuters in a phone interview.

Noem – a top official overseeing Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown – was questioned by both Democrats and Republicans before a Senate panel on Wednesday about the contracting process and Republican-connected firms awarded the money.

(Reporting by Steve Holland, writing by Ryan Patrick Jones, editing by Bhargav Acharya)

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