Trump’s face is everywhere. Taxpayers are footing the bill.

President Donald Trump’s face has been everywhere over the past year, sprawled across government buildings in Washington, D.C. This week, a senator from California said he uncovered new documents that show taxpayers are the ones fronting the cost for these elaborate banners.

Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat who previously revealed more than $50,000 in taxpayer funds had been spent on banners, said he unearthed more receipts that show “hundreds of thousands” of taxpayer dollars are going toward the president’s placards hung up all across the U.S. capital. 

While that dollar figure may not be particularly startling for some, the senator sounded alarms over the spending, calling it “illegal” for the president to have tax money go toward what Schiff called political propaganda. 

“I just uncovered more evidence that Donald Trump is spending hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to print giant banners of his face and put them on government buildings,” Schiff said in a statement. “Not only a terrible waste of the hard-earned dollars of the American people, but also an illegal use of public funds.”

In May of last year, the Agriculture Department temporarily plastered Trump’s face alongside Abraham Lincoln’s on its building; the display cost the agency $16,400. The Labor Department hung up a three-story banner last August, with a slogan that read “American Workers First,” which cost $6,000.

Then, the Justice Department in February hung a banner across its building that read “Make America Safe Again” — a nod to the president’s campaign slogan. Another three-story banner with Trump’s face outside the Department of Health and Human Services cost $33,726. A series of banners at the Federal Aviation Administration cost upwards of $114,000. And in June, the Interior Department erected a 30-foot banner of Trump’s face side-by-side with George Washington’s, which cost $39,000.

SFGATE independently reached out to these departments for comment. None replied in time for publication.

The banners are reminiscent of portraits seen in countries under authoritarian regimes, like China, where Mao Zedong’s portrait still hangs in Tiananmen Square as a symbol of the Chinese Communist Party, and North Korea, where portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are ubiquitous and seen as integral to the government’s pursuit of adoration for its leaders.

The banners themselves aren’t illegal, but paying for them with tax dollars likely is.

This isn’t the first time the president has tried to put his face on government property. 

Last summer, he printed his face on national parks passes, a move that caused uproar within the parks and outdoors communities, and led to a lawsuit that challenged the legality of turning the card into a political platform. The president also put his face around construction sites where the National Park Service was doing renovation, revealing a banner showing him in a construction hat that read, “Thank you, President Trump,” the Washington Post reported. Trump has continued to use his name as a brand: The Trump name is seen on steaks, a $1 coin, and even on bottles of vodka.