DOGE CHARGES POLITICOS Government Financing After $ 8 Million In Subscription Contracts Revealed

The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that Politico will not receive another crown of taxpayers’ money after it was revealed that the policy -focused news site has consumed more than $ 8 million via subscriptions and other government contracts.

Leavitt said the Department of Government Efficiency, run by Elon Musk, will handle the end of Politico’s payments.

Her comment came after X user Adam Townsend Sent that Politico had received $ 8.1 million in the taxpayer’s support. This included several contracts to a value of hundreds of thousands of dollars to site subscriptions, according to USSPENDING.GOV.

“I can confirm that the more than $ 8 million taxpayers, which have essentially gone to subsidize subscriptions to Politico on the krone of the US taxpayer, will no longer happen,” Leavitt said on Wednesday.

“The DOGE team is working to cancel these payments now,” she said.

Representatives of Politico did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

Leavitt added that the Trump administration “goes line by line when it comes to the books of the federal government.” Anything that does not “earn the interests of the American people” will be cut, she said.

It had already been a rough news week for Politico that was on its way into Wednesday, with Semaphor Reporting Tuesday had the company missed its latest payroll. These unanswered payments have since been resolved, Semaphor reported later.

Her Wednesday pressing briefing as Musk has been at a broken pace of cutting trillion of dollars from the US government’s budget. It includes defunding of National Public Radio, which the X owner suggested on Tuesday.

Musk has been the goal of criticism from many media figures and politicians-Inclusive from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Who said he is “morally free” And “not smart” – as he looks to aggressively trimming the federal bureaucracy.

President Trump said earlier this week that Musk “can’t do and not do” All with receiving his administration’s approval.

Politico is not the only news site that receives public funds in recent years. Associated Press has, according to USSASPENDING.GOV $ 619,968 government funding and Reuters is intended to receive $ 3.1 million. New York Times, Meanwhile, which reported his Q4 earnings Wednesday has $ 378,266 earmarked from government.

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