Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the cancellation of government subscriptions to Politico, emphasizing it as part of President Trump's initiative to cut waste. Misunderstandings arose surrounding claims that $8 million was directly funding Politico. In reality, this amount was related to subscriptions used by government employees for insights into DC politics. The announcement came amid broader efforts by Trump and advisors to review and cut government expenses, ensuring taxpayer dollars are used effectively. The Department of Government Efficiency is playing a key role in these decisions.
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.
Leavitt described the subscriptions as essentially subsidizing Politico. I can confirm the more than eight million taxpayer dollars have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on taxpayer's time.
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