President Donald Trump, DOGE chief Elon Musk Thursday doubled down on Politico claiming that it received millions of dollars from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which the new administration wants to shut down as Politico issued a statement claiming that Politico has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies.
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