Democrats and the media have always had a cozy relationship.
One of the reasons they get favorable coverage was exposed.
And Elon Musk discovered one secret payoff to the media from the Biden administration.
The federal government was subsidizing left-wing Politico with millions of dollars a year
Politico is an online publication that pitches itself to the move and shakers in Washington, D.C., and the Beltway.
The left-wing outlet has been a favorite of Washington, D.C. insiders for more than a decade.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was forking over $8 million for subscriptions to Politico Pro.
Politico Pro subscriptions cost $10,000 a year to provide “insider access” to news and the status of legislation in Congress.
But that was only the tip of the iceberg when it came to government funding of Politico.
The federal government funneled more than $34 million to Politico over the years.
The Politico scandal is worse than you think.
It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.
It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.
Follow along below. pic.twitter.com/OxF7Zrc4GP
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025
DOGE uncovered a motherlode of wasteful spending at USAID, including transgender comic books in South America, that led Musk and Trump to shut it down and transfer control to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Politico reported that it couldn’t pay its employees because of a technical error after USAID shut off its funding.
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. pic.twitter.com/PYcWYdbrEC
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) February 4, 2025
Journalists for Politico never disclosed in their stories about USAID or other government agencies that the outlet received payments from them, a clear conflict of interest.
Joe Biden benefitted from favorable coverage from Politico while he paid it taxpayer money
Former President Joe Biden was a major beneficiary of the “journalism” that Politico provided him over the years.
The 51 former intelligence officials who wrote a letter that falsely accused Hunter Biden’s laptop of being Russian misinformation went to Politico to have their story published.
That letter led to the Hunter Biden laptop story being censored on social media and the media furiously working to discredit it during the 2020 Election.
Politico also published the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in the spring of 2022, which would overturn Roe v. Wade that summer.
A Biden supporter was arrested outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home with a gun after that leak was published, who wanted to assassinate him for overturning Roe.
Democrats used that leak to raise money and fire up their supporters for the 2022 Midterm Elections.
Politico also published leaked material from the Department of Defense in 2022 about Republican Congressional candidates ahead of the elections.
The outlet published details about a sexual assault that Republican House candidate Jennifer Ruth-Green suffered in the military without her permission.
Ruth-Green was running a competitive House race in Indiana in 2022.
It turned out that this information had been illegally leaked before it was passed on to Politico, raising questions if someone in Biden’s Defense Department had done it.
The Biden administration made sure Politico got millions in federal contracts, and the outlet always found a way to provide Democrats favorable coverage.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that government funding for Politico was being canceled along with payments to other media outlets.
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