Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts

The White House has directed the General Services Administration to terminate "every single media contract" expensed by the agency, according to an email obtained by Axios, Report informs.

"GSA team, please do two things," a Trump administration official wrote:

Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg

Pull all media contracts for just GSA - cancel every single media contract today for GSA only.

President Trump is targeting the federal government's media contracts after Elon Musk and his allies discovered millions of dollars in agency subscriptions to Politico Pro, a policy tracking service widely used in Washington.

The discovery, made through a US government spending database that has long been publicly available, triggered erroneous theories on X about the Biden administration "funding" anti-Trump media.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the executive branch would stop spending money on Politico subscriptions amid the right-wing outrage.

GSA manages real estate, procurement and technology services for the federal government. An X account for DOGE has also announced cuts to other individual deals, such as a Treasury contract with the New York Times.