In the wake of the revelation that $34 million was transferred from taxpayer wallets into the coffers of far-left media outlet Politico, the Trump administration has ordered the General Services Administration (GSA) to terminate all media contracts for which the GSA currently pays. Included in the list of outlets affected are the aforementioned Politico—whose “Pro” product has gotten particular scrutiny—plus Bloomberg and the BBC.
Axios, another far-left media outlet, obtained a copy of a memo sent to the GSA by an unnamed Trump administration official directing the agency to do two things:
Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg
Pull all media contracts for just GSA – cancel every single media contract today for just GSA only.
RedState’s Bonchie first wrote about this Wednesday morning after the Elon Musk-led DOGE, his scrappy band of government slashers and a group of websleuths sniffed out, among other things, the insane government contract that saw Politico receiving many millions of taxpayer dollars, via USAID, so that government workers could read its swill. Some great points from Bonchie:
Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they’ve written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from “51 intelligence officials” saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
NEW: Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for ‘Politico’ Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There
White House Pulls the Plug on Federal Subsidies to Leftist Media
The story grew to such mammoth proportions on social media Wednesday that Politico could do nothing to get in front of it, and Politico apologists and other DC insiders, who have somehow failed to notice the Trump-sized paradigm shift that has taken place in the United States, were left sniffing about how everyone in DC subscribes to Politico Pro. This is no big deal, guys. You just don’t understand how DC works.
That was then and this is now. It wasn’t long before the White House weighed in, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stating:
“The more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to @politico… will no longer be happening. The @DOGEteam is working on canceling those payments now.”
Axios added that a White House official put all lefty media companies on notice, saying, “The eye of Sauron is on more than just Politico. It’s all the media.”
Politico bigwigs sent an email to its subscribers Thursday trying to explain away the scandal this way:
Government agencies that subscribe do so through standard public procurement processes — just like any other tool they buy to work smarter and be more efficient. This is not funding. It is a transaction — just as the government buys research, equipment, software, and industry reports.
And this may be completely unrelated, but Politico apparently had some issues paying its employees earlier in the week.
Fire sale on all Politico subscriptions in 3…2…1.
