{"id":189533,"date":"2026-03-04T05:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189533\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:05:07","slug":"city-orders-quarterly-updates-on-bid-to-collect-600000-from-2019-el-paso-trump-rally-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189533\/","title":{"rendered":"City orders quarterly updates on bid to collect $600,000 from 2019 El Paso Trump rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso officials say the Trump campaign still owes the city more than $600,000 for costs tied to a past campaign rally in 2019, prompting the City Council to order regular updates on efforts to collect the money.<\/p>\n<p>Information compiled in 2019 by the Center for Public Integrity found that at least 12 cities owed money from past Trump campaign rallies. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso was the largest city listed as owing money, with an outstanding balance of more than $569,000.<\/p>\n<p>The City of El Paso said that, due to interest, the amount owed is now more than $600,000.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso County said the Trump administration campaign owes about $1.6 million to all the cities.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the El Paso City Council voted to require the city manager and city attorney to provide a quarterly report on the status of requesting that the Trump administration pay back the amount.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/trumps-campaign-still-owes-el-paso-over-500k-for-2019-rally-other-cities-also-unpaid?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump&#8217;s campaign still owes El Paso over $500K for 2019 rally, other cities also unpaid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso officials say the Trump campaign still owes the city more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-189533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}