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The Obama administration doled out more than $77 million to promote the former presidents signature health-care legislation in what could be its final full year of existence, contracts obtained by The Post on Sunday reveal.

They show the federal government contracted with Democratic-leaning p.r. firm Weber Shandwick to spend $74.15 million on July 28, 2016, and another $3.69 million on Sept. 9, 2016, promoting the plan.

Of that, $64 million funded an advertising blitz including TV, digital and radio $4 million went to creative development and production, $5 million to direct response marketing, $2 million to campaign strategy, $1 million to branding and $1.5 million to encourage small business enrollment.

An official of the current White House dismissed the Obama administrations last-ditch efforts to try to swell enrollment numbers.

Tens of millions in hard-earned taxpayer funds spent on TV ads wont sell a fundamentally flawed approach to health care, the official told The Post.

The Weber Shandwick contract was signed by Pam Jenkins, president of the firm. Its chairman, Jack Leslie, was picked by Obama in 2009 to be chairman of the US African Development Foundation.

Leslie donated $1,000 to Obamas 2012 re-election campaign and $2,700 in December 2015 to Hillary Clintons failed presidential campaign.

Jenkins and Leslie did not provide comment.

I firmly believe that nobody will be worse-off financially in the process that were going through, Price said on NBCs Meet The Press. Understanding that theyll have choices that they can select the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not the government forces them to buy.

But Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) urged his House colleagues not to walk the plank and pass the bill because the GOP would suffer the consequences in the next election. Cotton told ABCs This Week that he believes the measure will cause premiums to rise and price people out of the health-care system.

Im afraid that if they vote for this bill, theyre going to put the House majority at risk next year, he said.

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Obama admin spent $77M to hype ObamaCare in 2016 - New York Post