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Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a severe blow to 1,500 local public stations, as well as PBS and NPR.
Before the vote, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, said that PBS and NPR had become “megaphones for partisan left-wing activism,” and that Republicans were seeking to stop wasteful spending.
The 51-to-48 vote caps a multi-decade push to defund public media by conservatives who argue that its programming is out of step with the national political environment. At a hearing in March, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene cited the appearance of a drag queen on “Let’s Learn,” a YouTube series produced by the WNET Group in New York.
Drawing on a 2024 Free Press article from former NPR editor Uri Berliner, Republicans also faulted NPR’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the COVID lab leak theory. They also objected to a documentary, “Racist Trees,” that aired on PBS.
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Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
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