President Trump's DOGE, led my Elon Musk, has uncovered that the left-leaning news outlet Politico was paid $8.2 million in government subsidies. What in the world?
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is in the process of cancelling the payments from several government agencies, including the USAID.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the money given to Politico was spent on, "essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the taxpayer's dime. The DOGE is working on canceling those payments now. This is a government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books. DOGE is in the process of pulling the plug on all payments."
Politico inappropriately received $44,000 from USAID last year, AND was given millions more from other federal agencies, public records revealed my Elon Musk show.
Notably, the Department of Health and Human Services gave Politico $1.37 million.
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy also gave Politico free taxpayer money.
"This is obviously a huge waste of taxpayer money!", says Elon Musk.
Interestingly, Politico staffers yesterday discovered they had not been paid.