Musk Pledges to Look Into US Government Spending on Media

© AP Photo / Kirsty WigglesworthElon Musk, owner of social media platform X, gestures during an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Nov. 2, 2023.
Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, gestures during an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Nov. 2, 2023. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 06.02.2025
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Last Sunday, Elon Musk called USAID a "criminal organization" that "needs to die." In a separate post on X, he described the agency as a "nest of radical left-wing Marxists who hate America."
US billionaire entrepreneur and the head of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, said that government spending on media, in particular subscriptions to the Associated Press news agency, is a waste of taxpayers' money and will be cut.
"Not for long. This is obviously a huge waste of taxpayer money!" Musk said on X on Wednesday.
The head of the DOGE responded to an X post that revealed that in recent years, the US government had allocated millions of dollars to the Associated Press news agency, including for subscriptions to its news feed.
Protesters outside the WELT Economy Summit hold up a placard that reads Behind fascism is a billionaire, criticizing tech billionaire Elon Musk on January 27, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.  - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 28.01.2025
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On the same day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the DOGE is working on canceling payments for Politico subscriptions that are subsidized by taxpayer money. The White House comment came after media reports that Politico had allegedly received millions of dollars from the United States Agency for International Development.
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