The Republican National Committee is picking up at least some of the legal tab for President Trump during the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report.

RNC spokeswoman Cassie Smedile confirmed to Reuters late Tuesday that John Dowd, the president’s lead lawyer, received $100,000 from the RNC, which also paid $131,250 to the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, the law firm where Jay Sekulow, another Trump attorney, is a partner.

“They have been paid with funds from a pre-existing legal proceedings account and do not reduce by a dime the resources we can put towards our political work,” Smed ile said in a statement to the news service .

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Officials with the RNC debated over the summer whether party funds could be used to help defray the legal costs to defend Trump in the Russia probes and decided it would be allowable under the law, the Washington Post reported.

The U.S. Federal Election Commission allows the use of private campaign funds to pay legal bills arising from being a candidate or elected official, Reuters reported.

While previous presidential campaigns used such funds to pay for legal matters arising out of election matters like compliance requirements and ballot access issues, election law experts said Trump’s use of the money to cover costs in response to a criminal probe would be a first, the news service reported.

The report would not put a price tag on the cost of Trump’s legal fees over the investigation conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller.

D owd said “that’s none of your business” when asked by Reuters about the funds.

Mueller is looking into Russian interference in the election and whether Trump campaign officials colluded. He’s also looking into whether Trump obstructed justice when he fired FBI Director James Comey, who was at that time spearheading the Russia probe.

The president’s re-election committee also paid $50,000 to the law firm of attorney Alan Futerfas, who is representing Donald Trump Jr. in the investigations.

Trump Jr. helped to arrange a meeting at the Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian-linked lawyer who promised to have dirt on Hillary Clinton that would help the campaign.

He later said the meeting, which was attended by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and former top campaign adviser Paul Manafort, ended up being about an adoption matter and it amounted to nothing.