Why are fact checkers questioning Politico USAID funding?

https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=9d737a512b291af979e94c1ba2d0f983.

Why were all these agencies paying all this money to Politico? Click on the link above to see for yourself.

Dept of Health and HumanServices (H…Department of Energy (DOE)Department of the Interior(DOI)Department of Agriculture(USDA)Executive Office of thePresident (E…Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA…Department ofTransportation (DOT)Department of the Treasury(TREAS)Department of Commerce(DOC)Dept of Homeland Security(DHS)$6.97M $4.18M $3.35M $2.50M $2.24M $2.01M $1.85M $1.44M $1.34M $1.25M

This is an excerpt from an article written by one of the shills attempting to debunk that Politico got paid. What is interesting is how they got paid. Subscriptions, and miscellaneous unallocated payments without Payment ID’s. Nothing to see here!

“In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000

Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.

The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE).??$6.97 MILLION and $4.18 MILLION and $3.35 MILLION

In July 2020, for example, HHS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185.

The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000.

$23,000+$24,000+$130,185+$100,000=$277,185

Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. ”