The scandal of the week might be called Subscription-gate. It was unveiled that the currently shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development was spending millions of dollars in lavishly priced subscriptions to “Politico Pro,” one of those government-insider news products no one outside the bureaucracy reads.
Over there at The New York Post, Real Clear Investigations contributor Benjamin Weingarten snagged attention with this headline:
Obscene $8M Politico payout just one way feds reward their lapdog media
Weingarten writes:
AS the federal government’s outrageous spending draws the Trump administration’s hugely deserved scrutiny, one of this week’s many scandals is that We the Taxpayers have been shelling out millions to buy bureaucrats subscriptions to left-leaning media sources.
Yet as offensive as these expenditures are — and as…
