{
    "byline": "Robert Mackey",
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    "dir": null,
    "excerpt": "As the White House expands a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote Donald Trump\u2019s political agenda before the November midterm elections, US senator John Kennedy told CBS News on Sunday \u201cthere ought to be a rule\u201d against such spending \u2013 before tacitly admitting such spending is \u201cprobably\u201d illegal.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 5196,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads"
}