Senate Votes To Claw Back Funding For Propaganda Machines, NPR, And PBS
This was a long time coming, but this morning, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted to cut more than $9 billion in spending. Of course, the vote, which ended up 51-48, required the help of Vice President J.D. Vance.
The reason was that two confirmed RINOs, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted along with their Democratic comrades.
The defunding is part of the $9 billion rescissions bill initiated by President Trump. It is part of an ongoing Republican effort to reduce waste and fraud by the federal government.
The president’s rescission package proposed cutting nearly $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-funded agency that provided taxpayer money to NPR and PBS.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) stated:
“I appreciate all the work the administration has done in identifying wasteful spending, and now it’s time for the Senate to do its part to cut some of that waste out of the budget. It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue.”
The package now goes to the House, which has until Friday to pass it. Should they fail to do so, the funding cuts will not be implemented, and that could be a problem.
The Senate shaved nearly $400 million from the scheduled cuts. Prompting Speaker Mike Johnson and other House Republicans to warn the Senate to avoid watering down the president’s package.
Over the years, NPR and PBS have become increasingly woke, funding programs like “Tickle Me Ahmed,” reporting that birds and country music are racist, and attempting to guilt Americans into not eating cheeseburgers. NPR also perpetuated the lie that there is no evidence suggesting that biological men have an unfair advantage over biological women in sports. Really? I’m betting Riley Gaines and the entire University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team would loudly dispute that false claim. Additionally, NPR snowflakes have even called America’s interstate highways racist.
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), who is becoming a sort of plain-spoken hero for common sense, wrote on X:
“No person with a brain above a single-celled organism would call these articles fair and balanced.”
Not surprisingly, despite overwhelming proof, executives from both agencies have denied the charges of leftist bias.
For instance, Last year, NPR’s senior business editor Uri Berliner revealed that there were 87 registered Democrats in NPR’s editorial positions in Washington, D.C., and zero Republicans.
The 25-year veteran noted a significant lack of viewpoint diversity at NPR, a nonprofit radio network. In an essay published on April 9, he stated that while NPR has historically had a liberal bias, the organization now lacks even an open-minded spirit.
Not long after publishing his whistleblower report, Berliner resigned from NPR, taking with him whatever viewpoint diversity he contributed.
The U.S. Constitution protects the right of free speech, but it does not require taxpayers to singularly fund liberal programming that divides the country. I would say having 87 Democrats in editorial positions and no Republicans is an obvious indicator of the type of programming being provided.
