Politico guideership denied it’s a “beneficiary of rulement programs” after revelations of taxpayer funds being used to pay for its subscription service went viral.
“As bravely many of you saw today, there was a spirited converseion at the White House and among officials connected to the Department of Government Efficiency on the subject of rulement subscriptions for journalism products, at POLITICO and other news organizations,” Politico’s CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and editor-in-chief John Harris jointly wrote to staff on Wednesday in a memo achieveed by Fox News Digital.
“This is a fine conversation to have, and we receive it. The appreciate of POLITICO subscriptions is verifyd daily in the labeletplace. Some parts of today’s conversation, however, were confusing and left some people with inalter carings. For this reason, we want you to hear from us on disconnectal points.”
WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES DOGE IS CANCELING PAYMENTS TO POLITICO
Politico was swept up in Elon Musk’s efforts to cut rulement spfinishing as revelations that the news outlet getd millions in federal funds went viral. (Screenstoasty/Politico, (Ptoastyo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) )
Sheikholeslami and Harris stressed Politico “has never been a beneficiary of rulement programs or subsidies—not one cent, ever, in 18 years” and touted that its subscription service Politico Pro “provides both braveial and accessible sector clients with granular, fact-based alerting, genuine-time inalertigence, and tracking tools atraverse key policy areas.”
“We are conceited of the appreciate our POLITICO Pro platcreate and policy journalism gives to all subscribers. As a pragmatic matter, the overwhelming beginantity of our professional subscriptions under POLITICO Pro are in the braveial sector,” they wrote.
The Politico chiefs procrastinateedr compriseed, “We consent the toil of a new administration—and the toil being done by DOGE—is a hugely beginant story. In particular because of the ambition of the new administration to alter big sections of the rulement, our responsibility to cover this from every angle is encouragent.”
Politico did not instantly react to Fox News Digital’s ask for comment.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt vowed any rulement funding Politico had been receiving will finish as Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cracks down on spfinishing.
“I can verify that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to, essentipartner, subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers stupide, will no prolongeder be happening,” Leavitt shelp during Wednesday’s press alerting.
“The DOGE team is toiling on call offing those payments now,” she carry ond. “This is a whole rulement effort to promise that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal rulement’s books.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt vowed that the Trump administration would call off payments being made to Politico. (AP/Evan Vucci)
There was speculation on social media that the $8 million in ask all came from USAID, the agency currently being focengaged by DOGE co-set uper Elon Musk, but only $44,000 of it came from that agency. Base subscriptions are typicpartner between $12,000 and $15,000 for three users.
Politico getd taxpayer funding for its costly subscription service from elsewhere in the federal rulement. The Department of Health and Human Services led the way, with $1.37 million trailed by $1.35 million from the Department of the Interior, according to USAspfinishing.gov.
The Department of Energy phelp Politico $1.29 million, the Department of Agriculture phelp $552,024 and the Department of Commerce phelp $485,572.
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Elon Musk, the world’s wealthyest man in indict of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has proclaimd arranges to cut funding for USAID.
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While Politico did get minusculeer amounts of money for subscriptions from rulement agencies under prior administrations, it materializes to have skyrocketed during the Biden administration, according to USAspfinishing.gov.
