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U.S. House Votes to Defund Taxpayer Subsidization of PBS & NPR
‘NPR and PBS have fueled partisanship and left-wing propaganda with taxpayer dollars, which is highly inappropriate and an improper use of taxpayers’ money’
By Katy Grimes, June 12, 2025 5:02 pm
In May, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order ending taxpayer subsidies to National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Thursday the House of Representatives voted to defund NPR and PBS.
According to the White House:
- NPR and PBS receive tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year, primarily from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
- The Order ceases federal funding to NPR and PBS to the maximum extent allowed by law.
- It also ceases indirect funding to PBS and NPR by prohibiting local public radio and television stations and any other recipients of CPB funds from using taxpayer dollars to support these organizations.
- The Order mandates that the CPB revise its 2025 General Provisions to explicitly prohibit direct or indirect funding to NPR and PBS.
- It directs all federal agencies to terminate any direct or indirect funding to NPR and PBS and to review existing grants and contracts for compliance.
- The Order instructs the FCC and relevant agencies to investigate whether NPR and PBS have engaged in unlawful discrimination.
The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to defund NPR and PBS on Thursday, 214-212, President Trump’s rescission package to rescind $9.4 billion of taxpayer funding – including $1.1 billion of funding of NPR and PBS, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funnels the taxpayer money to them, the Media Research Center reports.
What the House passed included eliminating $9.4 billion in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, Just the News reported.
The rescission bill now moves to the Senate, which many expect will approve the defunding as well.
“NPR and PBS have fueled partisanship and left-wing propaganda with taxpayer dollars, which is highly inappropriate and an improper use of taxpayers’ money,” President Trump has said.
For decades, Republicans have objected to taxpayer funding going to the two media outlets because of leftist bias, but Congress always blocked attempts.
The Media Research Center, parent company of NewsBusters, have long argued against taxpayer subsidies for NPR and PBS.
President Trump in his executive order boiled his reasoning down to, “No media outlet has a Constitutional right to taxpayer subsidized operations, and it’s highly inappropriate for taxpayers to be forced to subsidize biased, partisan content.”
“The package cancels money that was already appropriated by Congress in an effort to cement the Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts.”
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I remember when a music program on PBS was was cancelled because the host was involved with the occupy D.C. movement.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/public-radio-opera-host-fired-speaking-occupy-d-142142040.html
Listeners thought it was a nice show.
Apparently the program was on NPR, not on PBS.
That’s classic. And amusing too. Thanks for posting.
You’re welcome, thanks.
I believe that even with the Doge revelations the surface has been barely scratched concerning taxpayer money going to leftist/communist causes.
Never a supporter of NPR but speaking of commies and leftists, I heard Anchor Steve Inskeep, during post Katrina reports, describe a Louisiana National Guard unit entering New Orleans with AK47s at ready.
Also, let us not forget California’s premier hunting projectile expert and former guber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, deployed CHP officers there on mutual aid. Unfortunately they were involved in a controversial (can I write… “discriminatory, arbitrary and not well thought out”) disarming of citizens… under the watchful eye of fraud, bribery and money laundering expert, Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin.
National Guard and AK47s in Louisiana… The AK47 isn’t US military issue so whoever originated that story is badly misinformed or is a prevaricator. As far as California CHP acting in a locally inappropriate manner concerning firearm possession in Louisiana… It’s their rooted in anti firearm training they get in California. I forget the smaller paticulars of the story (it was a long time ago I read it), but the jist is there was a California visitor to a drinking establishment where the owner was doing something like counting a huge pile of cash at a table. The visitor expressed a concern that the owner might get robbed, the owner grinned and replied that wouldn’t happen because everyone present had a gun. What makes an inanimate object a weapon is intent, and California LEOs have tendenecy to regard everything as a weapon. By the way, it’s probably not a good idea for an outsider to poke sharp sticks at a pissed off Cajun on his home territory.
It wasn’t a story, just another clear example of how casually democrats distort the truth.
ignorance or deceit.
Winning!
Note to President Trump – Not tired of winning, keep it up!
To clarify: a pocket knife on one’s person that is used as a tool isn’t a weapon, a pocket knife that is intended to harm someone is a weapon. I once watched a reality cop show where on the back floorboard of a suspect’s car was a red handled Klein skinning knife. The trade specific purpose of the tool is to remove insulation from an electrical conductor. However, it is almost impossible to sharpen and keep sharp and in my estimation is practically worthless for any purpose at all. But, when the arresting officer was asked by the media ride along about it the cop said he didn’t know what it was, but it “is obviously (manufactured) to hurt someone.” And, when a subjective yet ignorant opinion like this gets into a police report, the opinion becomes fact in the court room.