Rewarding Their Lapdog Media with Millions of Our Money
9th February 2025
The scandal of the week might be called Subscription-gate. It was unveiled that the currently shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development was spending millions of dollars in lavishly priced subscriptions to “Politico Pro,” one of those government-insider news products no one outside the bureaucracy reads.
Over there at The New York Post, Real Clear Investigations contributor Benjamin Weingarten snagged attention with this headline:
Obscene $8M Politico payout just one way feds reward their lapdog media