Politico has received more than $8 million from USAID over the past 12 months, according to USAspending.gov. What other institutions will be shown to have received funding from USAID?
Resolves by the end of this year on news reports from at least one of:
• ABC
• CBS
• NBC
• PBS
• NPR
• CNN
• Fox
• MSNBC
• Associated Press
• New York Times
• Washington Examiner
• Wall Street Journal
• New York Post
• USA Today
Update 2025-02-05 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Clarification Update:
The market is specifically about identifying instances where unreported payments (not the official, above-board grants or awards) to institutions like Politico are revealed.
These payments are expected to be exposed by the DOGE investigation and corresponding news reports.
Official funding records and reported awards from agencies (e.g., those shown in USAspending.gov) will not be used to resolve the market.
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3.00It is understood by most smart people that USAID funds going to influence news organizations and other corrupted institutions are not reported on the internet.
This question is flawed. The source cited does not show that Politico received 8 million dollars from USAID over the last 12 months. It shows that 8 million was paid to Politico across all US agencies. A refined search for spending by USAID shows no grants in this system from USAID to Politico over the last 12 months.
@TheAllMemeingEye There are grants from a decent number of the federal agencies and subagencies. You can see them here. There's some from the Department of Energy, HHS, there's even some in there from the Office of the President — but none from USAID to Politico
Also, in those departments, all the grants I've seen are for Politico's premium news subscriptions. If that alone would have been enough to resolve it yes, everything here does — the government pays for news subscriptions!
@Marnix No, it literally isn't. I think you misunderstand what this market is. This is not about above-board grants and awards and reported funds. This is about unreported payments that are being exposed by the DOGE.
@JeffBerman Ah, I see. I misunderstood. If this is a "What will Elon claim" market, that changes things.
@JeffBerman Will a headline saying something like "Elon claims, without evidence, that <x> received 2 billion from <y>" be enough to resolve, then? Or a "claims falsely"?
@Marnix This market relies on the accuracy of the above news organizations. Certainly we can all trust the news.
Politico has received more than $8 million from USAID over the past 12 months, according to USAspending.gov
That's wild. Trump was so clueless during the first term, funding all these orgs who were running hit pieces and interference on his admin