When will you people ever learn to never trust anything coming from Trump or the maga swamp?
"Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to
E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years.
According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico
received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID.
In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—
purchased a subscription to
E&E for $20,000. According to
E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to
E&E was
purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.
Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to
E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform,
Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE).
In July 2020, for example, HHS
paid $73,857 for a
Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly
purchased a subscription to
E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been
extending a
Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."
Various government agencies have purchased subscriptions to its publications since 2016.
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