{"id":32649,"date":"2025-02-06T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-repeats-rightwing-claim-that-usaid-subscriptions-to-politico-were-payoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:26:41","slug":"trump-repeats-rightwing-claim-that-usaid-subscriptions-to-politico-were-payoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-repeats-rightwing-claim-that-usaid-subscriptions-to-politico-were-payoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump repeats rightwing claim that USAid subscriptions to Politico were \u2018payoffs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Elon Musk dismantles the agency, Trump claims subscription fees to the outlet could be \u2018biggest scandal of them all\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/06\/donald-trump-transgender-gaza-birthright-tariffs-trade-us-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has amplified a viral rightwing claim that media outlets, particularly Politico, were getting large payments from USAid, the foreign aid agency that his government is trying to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>With ongoing efforts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d to shutter USAid, a false claim has gained traction on social media that Politico has received $8m from the foreign aid group. The money in question was payment for subscriptions to the news outlet from the entire federal government, not \u201cpayoffs\u201d or even grants or other aid from USAid as rightwing accounts have claimed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/trump-politico-usaid-subcriptions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Elon Musk dismantles the agency, Trump claims subscription fees to the outlet could be \u2018biggest scandal of them all\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump has amplified a viral rightwing claim that media outlets, particularly Politico, were getting large payments from USAid, the foreign aid agency that his government is trying to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump repeats rightwing claim that USAid subscriptions to Politico were \u2018payoffs\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-repeats-rightwing-claim-that-usaid-subscriptions-to-politico-were-payoffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump repeats rightwing claim that USAid subscriptions to Politico were \u2018payoffs\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}