What to know

• More than $10 million in federal funds from a $20 million Homeland Security contract has already been spent on the national broadcast campaign since SeptemberS1
• Donald Trump provided no details on reimbursing taxpayers for ads that had already aired, nor on how he would go about having his political organisation pay for such future advertisingS2
• President’s U-turn comes after Democrats and Republicans condemned use of tax dollars for pro-Trump adsDonald Trump said on Monday he would pay for taxpayer-funded, pro-Trump ads “with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.”, a political action committee, after the tel...S3
• US president reverses course after defending television spots that ran during National Football League games and ‘Saturday Night Live’S4