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   From: democrat-insurrection@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/us-news/trump-orders-government-agency-to-   
   scrap-all-media-contracts-after-federal-tax-outcry/   
      
   The Trump administration ordered a critical agency that assists other   
   government departments to cancel all of its media contracts amid outrage   
   over federal tax dollars flowing to news outlets, according to a report.   
      
   A White House official made the request to the General Services   
   Administration in an email obtained by Axios Thursday.   
      
   “GSA team, please do two things,” the official reportedly wrote. “Pull all   
   contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg.   
      
   “Pull all media contracts for just GSA – cancel every single media   
   contract today for GSA only,” the email read, according to the report.   
      
   The GSA is an independent agency that, among other things, manages federal   
   property for different agencies and helps to ensure government operations   
   are efficient, according to its website.   
      
   The reported instructions from the White House were delivered after Elon   
   Musk’s and his Department of Government Efficiency team highlighted   
   millions of dollars in Politico Pro subscriptions that were paid with   
   federal funds.   
      
   Politico Pro is a popular service in DC that tracks “policy, legislation   
   and regulations in real time with news, intelligence and a suite of data   
   products,” the company said.   
      
   On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the   
   Trump administration would stop paying for the subscriptions after the   
   government funneled more than $8 million to the online site.   
      
   “The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now,” she said   
   during a press briefing.   
      
   “Again, this is a whole-of-government effort to ensure that we are going   
   line by line when it comes to the federal government’s books, and this   
   president and his team are making decisions across the board.”   
      
   President Trump, in a Truth Social post, claimed the money to Politico was   
   a “payoff” so the outlet would write positive stories about Democrats.   
      
   Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene weighed in on the controversy   
   Wednesday, arguing on X that news outlets “that do nothing but bash   
   President Trump and his supporters to push their highly partisan political   
   agenda shouldn’t receive subsidized subscriptions.”   
      
   Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John Harris attempted   
   to set the record straight in a letter to readers.   
      
   The pair insisted the publication doesn’t receive any government   
   subsidies.   
      
   “It is a transaction — just as the government buys research, equipment,   
   software and industry reports,” they wrote Thursday.   
      
   “Some online voices are deliberately spreading falsehoods. Let’s be clear:   
   Politico has no financial dependence on the government and no hidden   
   agenda. We cover politics and policy — that’s our job.”   
      
   An email to the White House late Thursday night asking for confirmation of   
   the Axios report was not immediately returned.   
      
      
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