Among the millions of things the federal government has been spending money on are the media.
Those revelations came as part of the work by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is run by Elon Musk.
The spending is through USAID, an agency that has been put on notice it is being shut down, or at least radically modified. It could come under the State Department going forward and Trump officials say its spending will be in pursuit of American policy and agenda worldwide, nothing else.
But revealed this week was the expenditure of millions of dollars on media organizations.
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Those cited included the New York Times, Politico, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, AP, and more.
But that’s now, apparently, over.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump orders the General Services Administration to terminate EVERY SINGLE MEDIA CONTRACT expensed by the agency.
Trump administration official wrote:
“Pull every single media contract for GSA… Politico, BBC and Bloomberg.” pic.twitter.com/M2jOGOuHXI
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 6, 2025
A report explained Trump has ordered the General Services Administration to end every media contract that has been expensed by government workers.
Today, 78 contracts were terminated for convenience across DEI, Non-Performing, Media, and Consulting categories, including one for “groundwater exploration and assessment in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.”
Approximately $110mm of total savings.
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 6, 2025
The action follows a Hill report that Trump scoffed at the media for being paid off by the government, “to write positively about Democrats.”
He wasn’t the only one making that suggestion.
On Thursday, Trump said, “Did you see what happened yesterday where they found hundreds of millions of dollars of money was fraudulently given to newspapers, I guess Politico? They gave money to all this — out of USAID. … It came out, hundreds of, just tremendous amounts of money had nothing to do with anything.”
He continued, “This is a terrible thing that was experienced, but we’re catching them left and right; we’re catching them. We’re catching them to a point that they don’t know what the heck is going on. They can’t believe they’re getting caught,” he added.
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