‘Heads should roll’: Politico embroiled in scandal behind Dems’ push to eliminate coal-fire pizzerias

Hands off our pizza, Politico!

Politico’s bad week keeps getting worse, and now it seems the leftist rag may have been working in co-hoots with big government to keep Americans from enjoying one of their favorite foods.

DOGE’s deep dive into wasteful spending at the USAID has uncovered all sorts of unpleasant surprises, not least of which is allegations that Politico was the recipient of $8 million of U.S. tax dollars believed to have been used to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

This revelation came after news that Politico had missed payroll, which had many suspecting President Trump’s freezing of USAID funding might be the reason why.

No wonder Politico was unable to make payroll last week.

You turned off the spigot. pic.twitter.com/rZmDjRhXcr

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 5, 2025

Fast forward a day and the madness only grows.

“So in the uncovered documents related to USAID,” celebrity chef Andrew Gruel began in a video on X. “It turns out… your tax dollars… 29 million dollars went to Politico. And then Politco funded a study why pizza is bad for you.”

And here’s where it gets good.

“Then they sold that study for 60 million dollars to start a non-profit whose drive is to shut down New York City pizza ovens, to push New York City [pizzeria] owners out of business.”

Over $100 million to fund studies and research getting people to eat less pizza. pic.twitter.com/17lzR0rdov

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) February 5, 2025

Gruel then alleged that an additional $17.3 million was used to buy pizzas around the country only to “dump them in the ocean in the name of doing good for the climate.”

It sounds like a plot an indoctrinated 3-year-old might come up with, only it was allegedly our lawmakers and their allies.

This nugget of information only piled on the anger aimed at big government and Politico for deceiving the American people.

This is a clear r*pe and pillage of taxpayers. Heads should roll for this. Next Democrat who comes out screaming to bring this back should be indicted because you KNOW their pockets were lined. Or did a piece go to all the Dems? Let’s see who owns this one. @DNC

— Solena1207 (@solena1207) February 5, 2025

Sooo, now that we’re getting over the shock of the absolutely ludicrous ways our corrupt government spends our tax dollars…

When are we gonna start investigating where this money ACTUALLY went?

Because I doubt they actually ran the majority of these programs and “studies”…

— Christine Bella (@CEBartsch) February 5, 2025

And what fun would X backlash be without some humor:

I have it on good authority, the only pizzas dumped in the ocean were those with anchovies. That’s money well spent.

— Sean Dowey (@SeanDowey) February 5, 2025

It could be $100 Trillion and it still ain’t happenin
I think pizza is even mentioned in the Bill of Rights
“to be secure in one’s pizza”

Over my cold dead, Parmesan crusted fingers!!

— The Fed Up Chef ‍ (@Hortysir) February 5, 2025

Amen!

But, what isn’t funny is the fact that the government was caught once again using taxpayer dollars against the taxpayers who were minding their own business and trying to live the American dream.

As BizPac Review reported last year, New York City had indeed made a move to ban coal-fire pizza ovens and was met with monumental resistance.

JUST IN: NYC proceeds with rule forcing wood-fired pizzerias to cut emissions 75%.

New York City officials have quietly approved a new controversial green initiative. The plan requires pizza parlors and matzah bakeries that use decades-old wood- and coal-fired stoves to cut… pic.twitter.com/yZpwOStRIR

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) March 12, 2024

“You got rats, you got trash in the city, you got f**king cars, planes, private planes, you got people getting slashed on the subway, you got flash mobs robbing stores and you’re coming for coal oven pizzerias?” Barstool’s Dave Portnoy railed at the time.

Now it seems we might know why. Follow. The. Money.

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