After reports surfaced that the federal government may have paid for subscriptions to media companies like Politico, the White House announced on Feb. 5 that those payments “will no longer be happening.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Feb. 5 press briefing that those contracts would cease immediately.
“So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development] to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room, and I can confirm that the more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer will no longer be happening,” Leavitt said....
