A super PAC tied to former President Donald Trump has spent millions of dollars on ads attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Federal Election Commission records show.

A filing on Friday revealed that Make America Great Again spent $1.5 million on Friday for “placed media: TV” opposing “Ronald Dion DeSantis,” in addition to a similar amount paid last week. The money was paid to Multi Media Services, based in Alexandria, Virginia.

The super PAC is run by top aides to Trump and received money from his campaign coffers, though now that he has an official campaign for president in the 2024 election cycle, it is required to operate independently. The MAGA committee had $54 million on hand at the end of last year.

The attack on the fellow Republican comes even as DeSantis has not declared candidacy for the presidency, and as Trump faces criminal charges from a leftist prosecutor in New York.

The ad faults DeSantis for voting to cut Social Security and Medicare while he was in Congress. “The more you learn about DeSantis, the more you see he just doesn’t share our values,” the ad says.

The ad will run on CNN and Fox News, according to AdImpact, NBC reported.

Although DeSantis now says he would leave those entitlement programs alone, he voted for non-binding resolutions in 2013, 2014, and 2015 while serving in the House that recommended raising the retirement age to 70 and reducing benefits for some. Trump’s own final budget proposal as president included cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare, the former by $845 billion over the following decade.

Both Medicare and Social Security could be insolvent in the next decade if reforms are not made, according to budget projections. Both parties agree that hard choices will have to be made to avoid the prospect of younger people not being able to get any benefits at all.

On the same day as the first ad buy, the annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports were released, showing that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will cease being able to pay full benefits in 2031, and the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund will become insolvent in 2033. Those cliffs would come just a few years after the next president’s term in office, and the options include raising taxes, cutting benefits, or raising the retirement age given increasing life expectancies. If the problem is ignored, the country could hit a devastating financial crisis.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed a hit piece from a left-wing publication this week that sought to portray him as being corrupt because he vacationed with a close friend who paid for the trips.

ProPublica reported that Thomas accepted paid travel expenses — including flights, staying on a yacht, and other accommodations — from real estate magnate and billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. The report acknowledged that those who were interviewed for the report confirmed that the men were “genuine friends.”

Thomas has accepted the gifts for decades, the report said, before admitting that “there are few restrictions on what gifts justices can accept.”

“That’s in contrast to the other branches of government,” the report added. “Members of Congress are generally prohibited from taking gifts worth $50 or more and would need pre-approval from an ethics committee to take many of the trips Thomas has accepted from Crow.”

Thomas responded to the story in a statement, saying that Harlan and Kathy Crow were some of his and his wife’s “dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years.”

“As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Thomas said. “Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable. I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines.”

“These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance,” he added. “And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future.”

Crow told the publication that the “hospitality” that he extended to the Thomases was “no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends” and that they never asked for any of it.

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Crow said that he and his wife have never discussed judicial matters with Thomas and that they have “never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue.”

The trips often included many other people beside the Thomases, and Crow said that he would “never invite anyone who I believe had any intention of” trying to lobby Thomas for judicial or political matters.

“These are gatherings of friends,” Crow confirmed.