NPR And PBS Hit Back At ‘Devastating’ Trump Plan To Cut Public Funding | EUROtoday

The White House accused NPR and PBS of manufacturing “woke propaganda” because the Trump administration reportedly plans to slash nearly all federal funding for public broadcasting.

The New York Times reported that the White House intends to ask Congress to chop greater than $1 billion earmarked for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the publicly funded nonprofit that helps underwrite public media organizations.

It will make the request when Congress returns from recess on April 28, opening a 45-day window by which lawmakers can both approve the “rescission” of two years of federal money or enable the funding to be restored, NPR reported.

NPR and PBS, America’s main public broadcasting networks, are largely funded by particular person donors and company sponsors, however each obtain further funds from the CPB.

Most of the federal authorities funding goes to native stations, and it stays to be seen whether or not legislators would need to put shops of their constituencies in danger — particularly within the rural areas most closely depending on taxpayer cash.

NPR stated eliminating funding for the CPB would have a “devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information.”

Paula Kerger, PBS CEO and president, stated the Trump administration’s effort to halt funding for public media would “disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people.”

“There’s nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress,” she stated.

On Monday, the White House revealed a press release that criticized NPR and PBS.

The assertion, which made no point out of the funding request, cherry-picked a sequence of “trash” NPR and PBS tales and condemned the networks for an obvious “intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints.”

Earlier this month on social media, Trump signaled his intense dislike of the 2 broadcasters, posting in all caps: “REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT ‘MONSTERS’ THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) led a House subcommittee final month by which she accused NPR and PBS executives of pushing “radical left positions.”

Trump has gone on the offensive in opposition to the media since his return to workplace, together with by denying journalists entry to the Oval Office and calling for networks to be punished.