BREAKING: President Trump To Fully Defund NPR and PBS!

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It looks like President Trump is gearing up to make good on yet another campaign promise!

This time, it’s completely defunding PBS and NPR!

What wonderful news!

I like how Sen. John Kennedy put it….

NPR and PBS certainly have a right to exist and to publish whatever biased coverage they want to publish — they just don’t have a right to spend billions of taxpayer money doing it!

Here are more details, from the NY Post:

The Trump administration took its first step Monday toward ending federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) — informing key members of Congress that it’s asking for them to eliminate “all” such spending while also codifying foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The major funding changes are contained in a long-awaited “rescissions” plan, obtained and first reported by The Post, that pitches a clawback of $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $8.3 billion from USAID.

A memo drafted by White House budget director Russ Vought — and requested by GOP congressional leaders — accuses CPB of a “lengthy history of anti-conservative bias” and cites “waste, fraud, and abuse” at USAID.

Formal transmission of the plan to lawmakers will start a 45-day clock for the Republican-held House and Senate to either adopt or reject the blueprint, which the White House believes will pass — unlike President Trump’s 2018 rescission plan, which failed by one vote in the Senate.

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“Since day one, the Trump Administration has targeted waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal spending through executive action, DOGE review, and other efforts by departments and agencies. Congress has expressed strong interest in supporting those efforts, and requested the Administration transmit rescissions to the Hill for swift approval,” Vought’s memo says.

“OMB recommends the Administration respond with two proposals to cut $9.3 billion. The first includes a rescission of $8.3 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending (out of $22 billion) that does not expire in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The second is a separate rescission of all Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — which funds the politically biased public radio and public television system.”

The White House memo notes that NPR CEO Katherine Maher once called Trump a “fascist” and a “deranged racist” — statements that Maher told Congress last month she now regrets making — and cites two recent PBS programs featuring transgender characters.

Meanwhile, Grok tells me that cutting these two agencies will save $535 BILLION per year:

The Trump Administration’s plan to eliminate public broadcasting funding would primarily affect the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which is the entity that receives federal funds and distributes them to PBS, NPR, and local public media stations. Based on the available data, the CPB has received approximately $535 million annually in recent federal budgets. If this funding is completely eliminated, the federal government would save $535 million per year.
To break this down further:
  • The CPB distributes more than 70% of its funding to over 1,400 local public radio and television stations, which includes PBS and NPR affiliates. For context, the average public radio station gets about 8% of its revenue from CPB appropriations, while for public TV stations, it’s roughly 17%. The $535 million figure represents the total federal contribution to the CPB, which in turn supports these stations and the programming produced by PBS and NPR.
  • While PBS and NPR also rely on member donations, grants, and corporate sponsorships for the majority of their budgets, the $535 million from the CPB is the direct federal contribution that would be cut under this plan.
Therefore, eliminating all public broadcasting funding would save the federal government $535 million annually.

Wow!



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