A new report released on Wednesday revealed that the Trump administration has spent an estimated $51 million of taxpayer funds on self-aggrandizing ads praising President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration.

The advertising industry analysis group AdImpact has determined that the ad campaign centered around the Department of Homeland Security is the largest political advertising expenditure for the year so far.

Most of the ads feature Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem promoting a message like, “Thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for securing our border, for deporting criminal, illegal immigrants, and for putting America first.”

The messages in the ads are nearly identical to the campaign advertising Trump has embraced since first launching his political ambitions in 2015.

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