On Thursday, President Donald Trump ordered the termination of all media contracts within the General Services Administration (GSA). This comes after it was revealed that the federal government was paying millions to Politico for Politico Pro subscriptions.
According to Axios, Trump told the General Services Administration to terminate “every single media contract.” In an email, the White House wrote two points, “Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg,” as well as, “Pull all media contracts for just GSA – cancel every single media contract today for GSA only.”
GSA is in charge of managing real estate, technology services, as well as procurement for the federal government. The move comes after it was revealed by Elon Musk and his DOGE team as well as others that there was rampant waste in spending across government agencies.
The premium version of Politico, which tracks granular policy in Congress and other areas, had cost the Biden administration over $8 million. Subscriptions had been purchased by many multiple agencies with the even the Department of Agriculture spending some half million dollars on these subscriptions.
