US authorities have stopped funding several major media outlets

The US executive branch is cutting off funding to the American newspapers Politico, The New York Times, and The Associated Press. This was announced in X by Elon Musk, who heads the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

This refers to the payments made by various US government agencies for expensive subscriptions to these mass media outlets.

According to Musk, the State Department has stopped paying The Associated Press, the Treasury Department has stopped paying subscriptions to The New York Times, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has dropped Politico.

On February 5, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt announced that the US government would cancel its subscription to Politico, worth a total of about $8 million per year.

He noted that, in essence, Politico was subsidized by American taxpayers, and the DOGE team has already begun work to eliminate payments to the newspaper.

Now Musk's department has begun a review of US federal agency spending on subscriptions to other media outlets. Earlier, he had strongly opposed the practice of financing media outlets at the expense of state funds.