Federal government payments to news outlets like Politico, The New York Times and The Associated Press for subscriptions or to license content are in the crosshairs of Trump administration spending hawks, with the president on Thursday calling it potentially “THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a day earlier said the government had paid more than $8 million for Politico subscriptions and that Elon Musk's government efficiency team “is working on canceling those payments.” That quickly prompted a social-media maelstrom and a hunt by online sleuths for other evidence of taxpayer spending on the news.
