White House Is Undecided on Paying Elon Musk for Twitter Blue Check

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

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The White House hasn’t decided whether it would pay $8 a month to maintain verification of its Twitter Inc. accounts.

“I don’t believe it’s an issue that made it to the president’s desk yet, not a conversation that the president is aware of,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “That’s something for the president that we need to talk to the president about.”