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  • (Flashback) Obama Administration Spent Billions on Image Advertising

    09/28/2026 8:10:52 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 6 replies
    The Fiscal Times ^ | 10/9/2015 | Eric Pianin
    A Congressional Research Service study last year discovered that at the very minimum, the Obama administration had spent a total of $4.4 billion on outside advertising contracts between fiscal 2009 and 2013, including $892.5 million in the final year. That total didn’t include other in-house advertising and promotional activities that could greatly add to the total cost. The biggest spenders in 2013 included the Department of Defense ($419 million), HHS ($197.4 million), the Department of Education ($128.8 million) and the Department of Veterans Affairs ($61.8 million). According to the CRS figures extracted from the Federal Procurement Data System, here is...
  • (Flashback) Report: HHS to promote ObamaCare with $12M ad buy

    09/28/2026 8:05:40 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 4 replies
    The Hill ^ | 9/5/2013
    Officials are currently working with public relations firms Weber Shandwick and Porter Novelli under contracts worth more than $50 million in all in order to prepare for the open enrollment period. Republicans have criticized the administration’s promotional spending for ObamaCare, arguing that it misuses taxpayer money.