Politico and Bloomberg Opinion have just been exposed engaging in grotesque journalistic malfeasance just to suck up to the Biden-Harris White House.

The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) unveiled another trove of documents of damning communications from 2022 through open records requests, giving MRC Business exclusive access. The documents reveal the extent to which the Biden-Harris Treasury Department had editorial influence over Politico and Bloomberg Opinion. A Politico reporter forwarded his pay-walled Politico Pro piece slapping down worries of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hiring 87,000 new employees to a Biden-Harris Treasury official who then edited some of the language used for the free version of Politico published a day later. Furthermore, Treasury officials managed to get a hold of interview questions sent in advance for a softball 2022 transcribed-Q&A session with a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and then-Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Lily Batchelder that took place the following day.

Politico went to bat for the Biden-Harris administration following the backlash to the IRS’s move to use $80 billion in funding it received through the Inflation Reduction Act to employ 87,000 new employees. One estimate noted that 57.3 percent of the new hires — fewer than 50,000 —  “would be assigned to tax enforcement.”  Politico senior tax reporter Brian Faler’s article, “The $80 billion question: What will the IRS do with all its new money?” was initially published as a Politico Pro item on Aug. 15. He sent his pay-walled item to Treasury Public Affairs Senior Spokesperson Julia Krieger via email and wrote, “Flagging.” Krieger responded with edits to the article, which appear to have been incorporated into the free version of Faler’s piece published the following day on Aug. 16:

Hi Brian-thanks for this! For the first sentence in the first listicle, can you clarify that this figure is the gross, not the net/so it's clear that we're not talking about 87k ‘new’ employees as it currently reads? I know you have it further down that Natasha expects 50k attrition, but would be good [sic] clarify at the outset since there's been so much misinformation on this exact issue of ‘new’ hires.