The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided over $8 million in funding to the news and policy media company Politico LLC.

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• After the Trump administration announced its intention to shutter USAID, rumors erupted that Politico, a digital media company, was being "massively funded" by the agency. Specifically, it was alleged that Politico had received over $8 million in USAID funding.
• The above claim was false. Publicly available records showed that in 2023 and 2024, the USAID paid a total of $44,000 — not $8 million — to Politico, and the payments were earmarked for institutional subscriptions to E&E News, a Politico publication. No other transactions between USAID and Politico were listed for the entire previous decade.
• The same records showed that since 2014, Politico had received $34.3 million from assorted federal agencies, the bulk of which appeared to have been payments for subscriptions to Politico publications (specifically E&E News and Politico Pro).
• Politico.com published a note to readers on Feb. 6, calling the rumors of USAID funding "misinformed" and "flat-out false," and stating that in its 18 years of existence, Politico "never received any government funding — no subsidies, no grants, no handouts."

In early February 2025, a false rumor circulated online, claiming the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — a government agency targeted for cuts or dismantling in the early weeks of U.S....

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