Trump To Cut Off Politico From Federal Funds, Press Sec Says

 As The Trump administration continues cutting waste from the federal government, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the left-wing media outlet Politico will no longer receive millions of dollars from the federal government that she said was “essentially subsidizing subscriptions.”

“I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room,” Leavitt began. “I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening. The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now.”

“Again, this is a whole-of-government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal government’s books. And this president and his team are making decisions across the board on ‘Do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? Is this a good use of the American taxpayers’ money? If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will be seeing significant savings because of that effort,” she stated.

The exact details of how Politico receives the large sum from the government are unclear. Politico isn’t receiving government grants, but rather has a large number of employees at various federal agencies subscribing to Politico’s premium product, Politico Pro, on the taxpayer’s dime. A subscription reportedly costs $10,000 a year.

Politico was founded in 2007 by two former Washington Post columnists: John  F. Harris and Jim VandeHei. VandeHei later co-founded and became the CEO of Axios, another left-wing media site.  In 2022, Politico published the leaked draft of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

“Politico and Axios, which share founding members, also share first prize in producing election coverage that reads more like Democratic National Committee press releases. In this area, they have no serious competition,” Becket Adams opined last August, as he delineated headlines showing the media outlets’ biases. “A brief review of Politico’s social-media feeds during the Democratic National Convention revealed a profoundly unserious and ideologically tilted newsroom, one whose copy contained all the unbridled glee and excitement of a teen fan magazine.”

And it’s not just Politico: