The White House spent more than $27,000 to track news stories in early March, according to a report – and OK’d the payment the day after a major development in the Stormy Daniels saga.

The money went to TVEyes, a company that monitors media coverage in print, TV and radio, on March 7.

Daniels launched a lawsuit on March 6 to free herself from a non-disclosure agreement that had kept her mum on her alleged one-night stand with Trump in 2006.

Federal procurement documents do not specify which stories the monitoring service was asked to track, according to TMZ, which reported on the documents Saturday.

But a White House source told The Post that the payment was for a four-year contract with the monitoring service, not for its work on any one story — and that TVEyes keeps tabs on dozens of topics a day for the president.

The previous contract, which was negotiated by the Obama administration, expired in February, the source said.