DOGE Cancelling $8M In USAID Payments To Politico, Media Outlets

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirming that the U.S. taxpayers have spent $8 million dollars subsidizing Politico – something she said will stop immediately, listen.
“Coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico who has a seat in the room.”
“I can confirm the more than eight million taxpayer dollars have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the taxpayer’s time 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 interest 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 taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort.”