EXCLUSIVE: Politico Paid $34.3M by Federal Government | Ep 81

The Liz Wheeler Show

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Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In today's episode, Liz Wheeler exclusively reports that the federal government has paid the most popular Beltway rag, Politico, a whopping $34.36 million over the past 10 years. What does this government-funded propaganda mean? Is it really justifiable to send taxpayer money by the millions to a so-called media "subscription" service? NO! Liz breaks it all down. Plus, did you notice the Left is shrieking about DOGE? Why are Democrats so scared that Elon Musk and President Donald J. Trump will end waste, fraud, and abuse. Liz also goes over breaking news of the day. SPONSORS: My Patriot Supply: Visit https://PrepareWithLiz.com and get your 4-Week Food Kit today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	We woke up this morning to news that Politico, the once-esteem mainstream media outlet,
0:49.1	the favorites of all the swamp creatures in Washington, D.C., had received $8 million in funding from the U.S.
0:56.5	federal government. Now, this was a bombshell story. This was awfully strange to see the U.S.
1:02.3	federal government paying a mainstream media organization money. Aren't these supposed to be two
1:07.6	entirely separate entities? Isn't the role of the media to hold government
1:11.2	accountable? Doesn't this create an enormous conflict of interest? Well, the answer to that question
1:16.4	is, yes, of course, it creates more than a conflict of interest. This destroys any shred of
1:22.0	credibility that Politico had left, which you could argue is next to nothing. But this is not even the worst of the story.
1:29.4	Originally, as reported, this $8 million was said to come from USAID. We've spent the entire week
1:34.3	watching Elon Musk and his team of remarkable nerds at Doge go after USAID. USAID is a quote-unquote
1:42.7	autonomous agency of the federal government. What that means is those who
1:47.1	run US aid, the swamp creatures who run US aid think they are accountable to no one, not the
1:53.7	president of the United States, not the US Congress, not you, the taxpayer, whom they are supposed to
1:59.5	represent. Elon Musk is spent the week exposing the
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