Donald Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE has still not officially forgiven $50 million in personal loans to his presidential campaign, despite promises that he would do so, NBC News reported on Thursday.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee announced last week that he had "fully extinguished this loan" and "personally invest[ed] in excess of $50 million dollars in the future of our country."

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Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Hill last Thursday that the campaign would send the Federal Election Commission (FEC) a loan forgiveness letter by the end of that day.

But NBC News reports that the FEC has still not received that letter, a week after the promise from the campaign. Hicks told the network that the letter will be "filed with the next regularly scheduled FEC report," which is due late July.

The campaign does not legally have to wait for that deadline and could send the FEC the letter at any time, which would eventually be posted on the FEC's online public database. But it's also under no obligation to send the letter immediately.

Trump has faced pressure to forgive the loans so that he would not be allowed to repay himself at the end of the campaign with money raised from donors. Forgiving the loans would also shore up his promise during the primary election that he would self-fund his campaign.

The overwhelming fundraising needs of a presidential campaign has forced him to start soliciting donations for his general election push. His campaign started June with just $1.2 million in the bank, a sum that put him behind the top 50 House lawmakers' campaign accounts.

His campaign has trumpeted his pivot to online fundraising as a resounding success, claiming that one of his first fundraising emails raised more than $3 million in just one day. But campaign finance experts have raised eyebrows at that sum, noting the difficulty in raising that sum without an established donor base.