Oh snap! President Donald Trump is not playing any games. He has no ordered the General Services Administration (GSA) to terminate every media contract that is expensed by the agency.
He declared, “Pull every single media contract for GSA… Politico, BBC and Bloomberg.”
🚨BREAKING: President Trump orders the General Services Administration to terminate EVERY SINGLE MEDIA CONTRACT expensed by the agency.
Trump administration official wrote:
“Pull every single media contract for GSA… Politico, BBC and Bloomberg.” pic.twitter.com/M2jOGOuHXI
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 6, 2025
New York Post reports:
The Trump administration ordered a critical agency that assists other government departments to cancel all of its media contracts amid outrage over federal tax dollars flowing to news outlets, according to a report.
A White House official made the request to the General Services Administration in an email obtained by Axios Thursday.
“GSA team, please do two things,” the official reportedly wrote. “Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg.
“Pull all media contracts for just GSA – cancel every single media contract today for GSA only,” the email read, according to the report.
The GSA is an independent agency that, among other things, manages federal property for different agencies and helps to ensure government operations are efficient, according to its website.
Elon Musk, running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, found that there are MILLIONS being spent on the media, including Politico Pro subscriptions that were paid with….you guess it! Federal funds!
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed the public that the White House will cease paying for the Politico subscriptions after finding more than $8 million funneled to the site.
“The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now,” she revealed during the press briefing. “Again, this is a whole-of-government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal government’s books, and this president and his team are making decisions across the board.”