White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, responding Wednesday to a question about a right-wing conspiracy theory, announced that the federal government would cancel $8 million worth of Politico subscriptions.

The Trump administration has frozen billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance as it looks to curb unnecessary federal spending across the government. At the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—the primary U.S. agency responsible for providing humanitarian assistance abroad—hundreds of staff have been placed on administrative leave as the White House considers shuttering the agency’s operations entirely.

Two former Politico reporters, Marc Caputo of Axios and Tara Palmeri of Puck, claimed there were instances in which they felt their ex-employer either killed or resisted negative stories about former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden on a podcast earlier this week.

Yesterday, Katie grabbed the news from the Department of Justice inspector general: FBI assets were inside the Capitol on January 6. Not that the liberal media is going to backtrack or apologize for calling us conspiracy theorists about that narrative. What’s hilarious about this is that we knew we were right from the get-go. The FBI lies, the media lies, and now we have a report saying that assets were inside the Capitol Building on January 6, but somehow, the press doesn’t believe it. 

More than 100 Politico staffers have reportedly signed a letter to publisher Robert Allbritton over the decision to allow right-wing firebrand Ben Shapiro guest-author the Playbook newsletter for one day, according to a Daily Beast report.