Trump's adviser seeks to cut AFP, news agency contracts
March 15, 2025 00:00:00
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (AFP): A senior adviser to US President Donald Trump said Thursday she was moving to cancel long-established contracts between three international news agencies and the federal body that oversees US government-funded news organizations.
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: "We should not be paying outside news companies to tell us what the news is."