Are Taxpayers Keeping POLITICO Afloat to the Tune of MILLIONS? Sure Looks Like It - We Have the Receipts!
http://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/02/05/politico-funded-by-usaid-n2407881
Elon Musk and his DOGE auditors, at the direction of President Donald Trump, killed all spending coming out of USAID. Democrats lost their minds, of course. This was a threat to bureaucracy ... er, democracy. Yeah, that's the ticket! We were subjected to protests and flailing about from Dems all because a major government tax dollars spigot was shut off. Then something curious happened. POLITICO couldn’t make payroll. Wow, talk about a coincidence! Yep, we’re thinking what you’re thinking.
Here’s where we start.
Max Tani (@maxwelltani) ~ Staff at Politico did not get paid for the latest pay period. The company just sent several emails to employees saying it believes there was a technical error, and is looking into how to fix the issue.
Patty (@PATTYMAGA1) ~ This is a coincidence that USAid stopped paying at the same time, right?
Tammie Bella Williams (@TammieBellaWms) ~ Strange. Does this involve USAID?
It started half-jokingly. ‘USAID pays Politico, ha ha!’
Then users on X started digging and wouldn’t you know it - they found this!
Adam Townsend (@adamscrabble) ~ Politico 😮
http://usaspending.gov/search/?hash=ce007c986b96d38c983ae10dc0614b6a
Sunny (@sunnyright) ~ We do indeed appear to be funneling large sums of tax money to @politico so that some bureaucrats can read left-wing journalists complain about Republicans.
AND, so that left-wing bureaucrats can have leverage over what gets published in Politico.
Once you break it all down, dozens of payments are going to POLITICO. A dishonest, Democrat-loving ‘news’ publication is getting our tax dollars.
Here’s another example.
Rational Actor (@Eamon_of_X) ~ Sorry what? 37 people need a subscription to Politico, so it costs $517k??? Am I reading this right?! 😬
That's $13,996 PER F*CKING PERSON!!!
PaintSandRepeat (@SandRepeat) ~ When was it awarded? Only way I can think it costs that much (if it’s “legit”) is that it’s for say 2-3 years subscription.
Horsesh!t! Hell, even if it was a 10-year subscription, that's still $1,400 per year for 10 years! For a magazine subscription???!!!
Rational Actor (@Eamon_of_X) ~ {Replying to @SandRepeat} Yes, 4 years it looks like. Nevertheless, seems absurd!
"SEEMS"?
Again, there are a lot of these POLITICO expenditures.
We’re not sure why the National Park Service needs subscriptions to POLITICO or any media outlets for that matter. But, here they are.
FiredFed (@FiredFed1) ~ This is crazy. On just one randomly selected contract, Politico received $862,025 over four years in a no-compete subscription contract from the National Park Service. This is why Dems are freaking out about DOGE.
Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) ~ Great find! So, the fed agencies were spending hundreds of thousands to procure subscriptions to Politico, which really just funded a left-wing propaganda operation.
Krepperman (@KreppermanPrime) ~ A whole ecosystem of grifting off of federal dollars!
It doesn’t stop with POLITICO. Reuters got a sizable chunk of our money, too. Check it out.
TJ Brush (@xicbassix) ~ Check this one out. Almost $10,000,000 to Reuters for social engineering.
ProperGanja (@Nu_Tools) ~ Not surprising at all, considering Pfizer was one of USAID´s biggest recipients. The CEO of Reuters is on the board of Pfizer. 👇http://pfizer.com/people/leadership/board_of_directors/james_smith
Even overseas ‘news’ outlets are benefiting.
Corvus Honkteen (@Thalassathesea) ~ British based Financial Times ...
Laura Raimondi (@LauraRaimondi9) ~ So, that’s what happened to them! I used to love reading that paper. Then I wrote them asking why they were taking such a sudden and distinct slant on US news.
You can search all this for yourselves at this official government website below.
‘The Editor’ (@WorkPlaceRpt) ~
http://www.usaspending.gov/
American Rose (@pearlecent163) ~ How about that! They don’t like that their money is going to be cut off.
We’d like to hear explanations from all these media organizations feeding off our tax money. These revelations explain why they were so united in their mission to deny President Donald Trump another term in office. Now we get to see if these outlets can survive with the spigot turned off.
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