The Last Supper? With the USAID cash spigot shut off, next year the White House Flunky Association’s group meal will be a BYOB luncheon: Bring your own bag.

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Ooh, so brave!

Comedian Amber Ruffin Reveals She Will Go Full Liberal Hack At WHCA Dinner, Doesn’t Want Trump To Attend

Miss Ruffin was “the top pick” of President of the White House Correspondents Association and Politico reporter Eugene Daniels.

“Amber’s unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate,” Daniels said. “Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.”

“This dinner is about centering the importance of a functioning democracy and Amber is the type of entertainer who understands both the significance of that mission as well as the mechanics of power in this country,” he continued.

Ruffin added in the interview that she plans to approach the night by “telling the truth” about how she feels.

“I think I’m going to do it the same way I always do it, by just telling the truth about how I feel,” Ruffin said. “I feel like we all feel a little sad. Well, some of us feel pretty happy. But a lot of us feel a little sad. And I think it’s OK to say exactly what it is that’s making us feel this way.”

“And I think when you do that, and people feel the same way as you, they think that it is fun and funny and it feels good to hear, and that’s kind of where I operate from,” Ruffin continued.

Enjoy your meal, children, especially you, Daniels: the Politico cash machine was just shut down:

Trump Administration Cancels All Media Contracts After Politico’s $34 Million Scandal

In the wake of the revelation that $34 million was transferred from taxpayer wallets into the coffers of far-left media outlet Politico, the Trump administration has ordered the General Services Administration (GSA) to terminate all media contracts for which the GSA currently pays. Included in the list of outlets affected are the aforementioned Politico—whose "Pro" product has gotten particular scrutiny—plus Bloomberg and the BBC.

Axios, another far-left media outlet, obtained a copy of a memo sent to the GSA by an unnamed Trump administration official directing the agency to do two things:

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 just GSA only.

RedState's Bonchie first wrote about this Wednesday morning after the Elon Musk-led DOGE, his scrappy band of government slashers and a group of websleuths sniffed out, among other things, the insane government contract that saw Politico receiving many millions of taxpayer dollars, via USAID, so that government workers could read its swill. Some great points from Bonchie:

Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they've written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from "51 intelligence officials" saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. 

NEW: Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There

White House Pulls the Plug on Federal Subsidies to Leftist Media

The story grew to such mammoth proportions on social media Wednesday that Politico could do nothing to get in front of it, and Politico apologists and other DC insiders, who have somehow failed to notice the Trump-sized paradigm shift that has taken place in the United States, were left sniffing about how everyone in DC subscribes to Politico Pro. This is no big deal, guys. You just don't understand how DC works.

That was then and this is now. It wasn't long before the White House weighed in, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stating:

"The more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to @politico... will no longer be happening. The @DOGEteam is working on canceling those payments now."

Axios added that a White House official put all lefty media companies on notice, saying, "The eye of Sauron is on more than just Politico. It's all the media."

And this may be completely unrelated, but Politico apparently had some issues paying its employees earlier in the week.