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Universal Monk@sh.itjust.works to Conservative@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 个月前

Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site

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Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site

www.dailymail.co.uk

Universal Monk@sh.itjust.works to Conservative@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 个月前
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DOGE cancels $8.2 million government payments to Politico
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Politico has become the latest target in Elon Musk's clampdown on public spending after it emerged taxpayers were footing the bill for pricey subscriptions to the outlet.
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  • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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    Turns out, this isn’t true. Shocker.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/trump-politico-usaid-subcriptions

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      In reality, $44,000 of the payments to Politico came from USAid, for subscriptions to E&E, an energy-focused offshoot of the company, in 2023 and 2024, the Dispatch reported after reviewing the purchases.

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        Yes, their office paid for a service they provide that is not their news paper, nor was it just given to them. It also is no where near 8 million dollars. Beyond that, politico offers services that almost everyone in congress, GOP or DNC, pays for, that has nothing to do with their news paper

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          Conservative media relies on dogshit takes and outright lies and misinformation. Daily Mail is such a rag of a tabloid, it’s unreal.

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            Yeah, all our news media sucks, but right wing media has become like a caricature of a dystopian novel’s government’s propaganda bureaucracy

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