Senate Axes NPR Funding

Why was the  American taxpayer was financing a far-left Democrat propaganda machine? Listening to it was painful.

NPR is an institution that chose deliberately NOT to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Instead, they ran articles about gender queer dinosaurs, how civility is racist, and fatphobia.

Today we defund them permanently. pic.twitter.com/W9z3bTQy47

— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) July 17, 2025

NPR has 87 editorial positions filled by registered Democrats in DC and zero Republicans.

The White House on NPR:

The CEO of NPR is claiming that the cuts to their network could be “a real risk to the public safety of the country.”@reaganreese_: “Can you respond to these concerns?”

LEAVITT: “These [NPR & PBS] are not honest news organizations. These are partisan, left-wing outlets that… pic.twitter.com/mixsRRoq6S

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 17, 2025

Liberals are howling in despair and anger, NPR’s President is insisting that NPR isn’t biased, and Democrats are complaining that defunding state-run media is destroying freedom. Republicans? They are celebrating as the Senate passed the president’s rescissions bill defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Slightly more than 10% of the spending cuts are aimed at the CPB, but nearly 100% of the news coverage is complaining or celebrating the stripping of funds for NPR. Award for most ridiculous defense of NPR goes to its President Katherine Maher. Curtis Houck: NPR CEO Katherine Maher argues rural America often has no other possible source of news or connection to the outside world EXCEPT through PBS and NPR: “Large rural communities, large tribal communities” don’t have “a lot of other options. Broadband service is not universal, and heck, even cell phone service is not universal. There’s a real understanding of the need there as well as for emergency alerting, in which public media plays an extraordinarily important role.” (X)

https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1946068188115931194

>Second best observation comes from T. Beckett Smith: NPR and PBS quit Twitter in 2023 after being labeled “government-funded media,” arguing the funding they receive is so trivial as to render such a designation unfair and inaccurate. Now, we’re told the potential loss of the allegedly trivial funding poses an existential threat. (X).

Last night, the Senate officially voted to end taxpayer funding for NPR.

To celebrate, we read some of the NPR CEO’s most deranged tweets.

Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/HkZibmJPMT

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 17, 2025

(2/5) NPR reported that country music and birds are racist, told American people to stop eating beef, and promoted the Russia-gate conspiracy.

No person with a brain above a single-celled organism would call these articles fair and balanced. pic.twitter.com/vpCl2Y74TI

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) July 16, 2025

BIAS: NPR has 87 editorial positions filled by registered Democrats in DC and zero Republicans. pic.twitter.com/bKdwpA8adI

— @amuse (@amuse) March 26, 2025

House passes rescissions package slashing $9B in federal funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS

By Victor Nava, NY post, July 18, 2025, 12:29 a.m. ET

House Republicans approved a clawback package Thursday that will cut $9 billion in previously approved federal outlays for foreign aid, NPR and PBS.

The so-called rescissions bill passed 216-213, with GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mike Turner of Ohio joining all present Democrats in voting no.

The House faced a Friday deadline to pass the measure, which the White House transmitted to Congress in June in an effort to codify cuts to wasteful spending identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The Senate passed the bill early Thursday morning, with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) joining all 46 present Democrats in opposition.

The latest House vote approved changes to the measure made by the Senate. It will now head to President Trump’s desk for his signature.

The measure returns about $8 billion earmarked for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and upwards of $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR — spending conservatives have long sought to slash.

House Republicans had passed a form of the package early last month, but the Senate struggled over it for weeks amid various concerns about some of the cuts.

Eventually, the Trump administration agreed to scrap plans to cut some $400 million from a federal program aimed at fighting AIDS worldwide.

An effort by Democrats in the House Rules Committee to tack on an amendment calling for the release of documents related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was blocked by Republicans on the panel.

Republicans in the Rules Committee opted to instead move forward with a nonbinding resolution backing the “public release of certain documents, records, and communications related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who could have exercised his powers under the rules of lower chamber to speak for as long as he could in opposition of the measure, opted to give only a 15-minute speech Thursday night.

Earlier this month, Jeffries used his so-called “magic minute” of debate delay passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for almost nine hours, shattering the record previously held by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is expected to send other rescissions requests to Congress in the coming months.