Politico denies it's a 'beneficiary of government programs' as questions swirl over receiving taxpayer funds

Politico enactment denied it's a "beneficiary of authorities programs" aft revelations of payer funds being utilized to wage for its subscription work went viral.

"As surely galore of you saw today, determination was a spirited treatment astatine the White House and among officials connected to the Department of Government Efficiency connected the taxable of authorities subscriptions for journalism products, astatine POLITICO and different quality organizations," Politico's CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and editor-in-chief John Harris jointly wrote to unit connected Wednesday successful a memo obtained by Fox News Digital. 

"This is simply a good speech to have, and we invited it. The worth of POLITICO subscriptions is validated regular successful the marketplace. Some parts of today’s conversation, however, were confusing and near immoderate radical with mendacious understandings. For this reason, we privation you to perceive from america connected respective points."

WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES DOGE IS CANCELING PAYMENTS TO POLITICO

Politico was swept up successful Elon Musk's efforts to chopped authorities spending arsenic revelations that the quality outlet received millions successful national funds went viral. (Screenshot/Politico,  (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) )

Sheikholeslami and Harris stressed Politico "has ne'er been a beneficiary of authorities programs oregon subsidies—not 1 cent, ever, successful 18 years" and touted that its subscription work Politico Pro "provides some backstage and nationalist assemblage clients with granular, fact-based reporting, real-time intelligence, and tracking tools crossed cardinal argumentation areas."

"We are arrogant of the worth our POLITICO Pro level and argumentation journalism gives to each subscribers. As a applicable matter, the overwhelming bulk of our nonrecreational subscriptions nether POLITICO Pro are successful the backstage sector," they wrote. 

The Politico chiefs aboriginal added, "We judge the enactment of a caller administration—and the enactment being done by DOGE—is a hugely important story. In peculiar due to the fact that of the ambition of the caller medication to alteration ample sections of the government, our work to screen this from each space is urgent."

Politico did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

EX-POLITICO REPORTERS REVEAL EDITORS QUASHED, SLOW-WALKED NEGATIVE BIDEN STORIES 'WITH NO EXPLANATION'

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt vowed immoderate authorities backing Politico had been receiving volition extremity arsenic President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cracks down connected spending. 

"I tin corroborate that the much than $8 cardinal payer dollars that person gone to, essentially, subsidizing subscriptions to Politico connected the American taxpayers dime, volition nary longer beryllium happening," Leavitt said during Wednesday's property briefing.

"The DOGE squad is moving connected canceling those payments now," she continued. "This is simply a full authorities effort to guarantee that we are going enactment by enactment erstwhile it comes to the national government’s books."

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt vowed that the Trump medication would cancel payments being made to Politico.  (AP/Evan Vucci)

There was speculation connected societal media that the $8 cardinal successful question each came from USAID, the bureau presently being targeted by DOGE co-founder Elon Musk, but lone $44,000 of it came from that agency. Base subscriptions are typically betwixt $12,000 and $15,000 for 3 users. 

Politico received payer backing for its costly subscription work from elsewhere successful the national government. The Department of Health and Human Services led the way, with $1.37 cardinal followed by $1.35 cardinal from the Department of the Interior, according to USAspending.gov. 

The Department of Energy paid Politico $1.29 million, the Department of Agriculture paid $552,024 and the Department of Commerce paid $485,572.  

TOP DEM STRATEGISTS WARN USAID FUNDING FIGHT IS A ‘TRAP’ FOR THE PARTY

Elon Musk, the world’s richest antheral successful complaint of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced plans to chopped backing for USAID. 

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While Politico did person smaller amounts of wealth for subscriptions from authorities agencies nether anterior administrations, it appears to person skyrocketed during the Biden administration, according to USAspending.gov.