Trump advisor seeks to cut major news agency contracts

We should not be paying outside news companies to tell us what the news is."

In a post on X announcing the move to cut the contracts with Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters and The Associated Press, former journalist-turned-politician and staunch Trump loyalist Kari Lake said

I moved today to cancel expensive and unnecessary newswire contracts for US Agency for Global Media, including tens of millions of dollars in contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse,

Lake said

We should be producing news ourselves. And if that's not possible, the American taxpayer should know why,

she added