The Division of Veterans Affairs canceled $178,000 in subscriptions to Politico Professional, VA Secretary Doug Collins introduced Monday.
Collins announced the transfer on X, pronouncing his workplace had handiest just lately turn out to be conscious about the contract. The cancelation comes after President Donald Trump’s management printed that the government had paid over $8 million to Politico in subscription charges in recent times.
“Ran throughout a $178,000 contract VA had with Politico and we promptly canceled it. That cash will also be higher spent on Veterans well being care!” Collins wrote.
The VA canceled a just about $200,000 contract with Politico this week. (Screenshot/Politico, (Picture via Samuel Corum/Getty Photographs) )
“It’s a brand new day at VA,” Collins instructed Fox Information Virtual. “We’re hanging Veterans on the heart of the entirety the dept does, focusing relentlessly on customer support and comfort. We’re operating each day to search out new and higher tactics of serving to VA beneficiaries. That suggests reducing wasteful spending and redirecting assets towards systems that get advantages Veterans, households, survivors and caregivers.”
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The transfer comes after Politico denied claims that it was once a “beneficiary of presidency systems” final week upon revelations of tens of millions of greenbacks price of contracts with federal businesses.
“As definitely lots of you noticed nowadays, there was once a spirited dialogue on the White Area and amongst officers hooked up to the Division of Executive Potency when it comes to executive subscriptions for journalism merchandise, at POLITICO and different information organizations,” Politico’s CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and editor-in-chief John Harris collectively wrote to body of workers on Wednesday in a memo got via Fox News Digital.
“It is a superb dialog to have, and we welcome it. The price of POLITICO subscriptions is validated day-to-day available on the market. Some portions of nowadays’s dialog, then again, have been complicated and left some folks with false understandings. Because of this, we would like you to listen to from us on a number of issues.”
White Area press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks all over a briefing on the White Area on Wednesday, Feb. 5. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Sheikholeslami and Harris stressed out Politico “hasn’t ever been a beneficiary of presidency systems or subsidies—now not one cent, ever, in 18 years” and touted that its subscription carrier Politico Professional “supplies each personal and public sector purchasers with granular, fact-based reporting, real-time intelligence, and monitoring gear throughout key coverage spaces.”
There was once hypothesis on social media that the $8 million in query all got here from USAID, the company recently being focused via DOGE co-founder Elon Musk, however handiest $44,000 of it got here from that company. Base subscriptions are usually between $12,000 and $15,000 for 3 customers.
VA Secretary Doug Collins introduced he was once reducing a six-figure contract with Politico.
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Politico gained taxpayer investment for its expensive subscription carrier from in different places within the federal executive. The Division of Well being and Human Services and products led the way in which, with $1.37 million adopted via $1.35 million from the Division of the Inner, consistent with USAspending.gov.
The Division of Power paid Politico $1.29 million, the Division of Agriculture paid $552,024 and the Division of Trade paid $485,572.
Referring to Collins’ Monday announcement, a Politico spokesperson instructed Fox Information Media, “POLITICO Professional tracks coverage, regulation, and rules in real-time with information, intelligence, and a collection of information merchandise. The usage of the POLITICO Professional platform—which is distinct and break away POLITICO.com—in the end will increase transparency, potency, and responsibility for the ones seeking to navigate the huge labyrinth of the government, together with the ones operating within the executive itself.”
Fox Information’ Brian Flood contributed to this record
