“Dear god,” Sam Stein posted to Twitter this morning. “Hard to believe we’re on day two of this.” And Hugh Hewitt agreed, in his way, which could be their only convergence in the Politico Pro scandal on Day Two.
For those who missed it yesterday, the US DOGE Service initially uncovered over $8 million in payments to Politico, with later reports putting their government income at over $30 million. This got caught up and somewhat conflated with the USAID spending scandal on grants, about which David has more. The funds in this case were spent by other executive branch agencies to subscribe to Politico Pro, which apparently costs $12,000 annually. We know that because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had 37 active subscriptions alone, accounting for $443,000 of outlays in the last fiscal year:
I have used my uncanny calculator skills to determine that…
