Trump Celebrates Congress Pulling $1.1 Billion in Funding From 'Atrocious' NPR and PBS: 'This Is Big!'
"Sesame Street will stop making fun of me now!!!!!!!!!!!!"
President Donald Trump took a victory lap after Congress formally passed his measure to claw back $9 billion in previously approved funding, including $1.1 billion for PBS and NPR — which public media execs have said could force dozens of local stations to shut down.
Early Friday, the House gave final approval to Trump’s rescission package by a 216-to-213 vote, after the Senate a day earlier had OK’d the measure in a 51-to-48 vote. The bill cancels about $8 billion in foreign aid and $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which provides funding to NPR and PBS) over the next two years. It now awaits Trump’s signature to go into effect.
Trump proudly noted that his effort to eliminate federal funding from PBS and NPR comes after decades of attempts by conservative lawmakers to do the same. The White House has alleged that public media outlets have “spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news’” and that “NPR and PBS have zero tolerance for non-leftist viewpoints.”
“HOUSE APPROVES NINE BILLION DOLLAR CUTS PACKAGE, INCLUDING ATROCIOUS NPR AND PUBLIC BROADCASTING, WHERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR WERE WASTED,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform late Thursday night. “REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND FAILED….BUT NO MORE. THIS IS BIG!!!”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-celebrates-congress-pulling-1-114454994.html
You can tell math isn't a right-wing strong point. Spending on PBS is a pittance compared to other things.
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