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2025-04-15 Government Corruption
Trump White House to PBS & NPR: ''You're Cut Off!''—Slashes $1.1B, Cites Big Time Bias — Twitchy
[TWITCHY] It appears President Trump is ready to follow through with pulling funds from public broadcasting. It's about time. It's become a cesspool of Leftist dorks.

WASHINGTON — The White House has begun to notify Congress of its request to eliminate ''all'' public broadcasting funding and codify foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, The Post has learned.

Major proposed clawbacks in the so-called ''rescissions'' plan include $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to PBS and National Public Radio, 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.
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.

Let's get this show on the road.
Posted by Fred 2025-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11154 views ]  Top

#1 finally
Posted by 746 2025-04-15 00:03||   2025-04-15 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 We have only been begging for this for 20 years
Posted by DarthVader 2025-04-15 01:18||   2025-04-15 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Ups the probability of a great year ahead!
Posted by Oregon Dave 2025-04-15 02:09||   2025-04-15 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 And all indirect funding through various federal departments.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-15 07:42||   2025-04-15 07:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Major proposed clawbacks in the so-called ''rescissions'' plan include $11 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to PBS and National Public Radio, and $8.3 billion from USAID..

USAID was likely just a funding cutout for another agency not mentioned.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-04-15 07:46||   2025-04-15 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 If it means no more Deutsche Welle I'm all for it.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-04-15 09:28||   2025-04-15 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Deutsche Welle is funded by the German taxpayer.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-04-15 12:22||   2025-04-15 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Why are we funding stuff that hates us.
Posted by mossomo 2025-04-15 12:29||   2025-04-15 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 EC, DW is on PBS nightly, seemingly for hours. I tune in when I'm curious about what the left is doing. I doubt it is broadcast without charge on PBS, hence funded by the American taxpayer.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-04-15 12:33||   2025-04-15 12:33|| Front Page Top

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