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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Politico received over $8 million in American taxpayer dollars under Biden administration

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:03.5

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0:07.3

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0:08.8

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0:11.4

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0:13.5

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0:14.9

So somebody else is putting up a fight is Elon Musk, the government.

0:20.4

It's being reported has subsidized Politico's subscriptions

0:24.1

with $8.1 million being spent on 230 transactions from multiple agencies. And Politico came out

0:33.5

and said that they weren't paying their employees because of a technical glitch.

0:38.4

And now we're hearing these stories about Politico.

0:42.0

And you got to wonder, was it a technical glitch?

0:45.2

Or did their funding dry up because of what's going on with USAID?

0:49.6

Well, isn't it fascinating?

0:50.9

The broader story isn't one individual organization.

0:55.6

It's the voluminous nature in which the U.S. was funding these various non-government-related entities and organizations

1:02.7

and all of the money. And nobody really knew anything about this group. Isn't that amazing?

1:07.8

Like I like to feel like I'm a pretty informed person, and I'm learning all sorts of things

1:13.1

about this.

1:13.7

I mean, when we talk about government waste and money going places and we're always like,

1:16.6

where did all the money go?

1:18.1

This is where the money was going.

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