Trump Wins Again: Senate Passes $9bil Cuts to Global Aid, PBS, NPR
A $9 billion package of federal spending cuts aimed at public broadcasting and overseas aid was passed by the U.S. Senate early Thursday morning in yet another sweeping legislative victory for President Donald Trump.
The Financial Times reports broadcasting institutions NPR and PBS would lose their flow of taxpayer dollars when the package, which the Republican-led Senate approved after 2 a.m. by 51 votes to 48, is signed into law.
The bill also shuts off funding for foreign aid grants for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) once final approval by the House of Representatives is given after a vote due this week. The legislation must pass by a Friday deadline.
NPR and PBS have long been positioned as staunch left-wing opponents to the Republican agenda even as Trump vowed to deliver on his promise to drain the swamp in Washington, DC, and embrace fiscal sanity over a never-ending flow of taxpayer funds to public institutions...
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The Bell Finally Tolls for National Propaganda Radio - Public media can be a great thing, but the current iteration treats America like a foreign country, by Matt Taibbi, Racket News, 16 July 2025:
National Public Radio ruined the enterprise, turning the country’s signature public news shows into an endless partisan therapy session...
Happy Independence Day, NPR, by Uri Berliner, FreePress, 17 July 2025:
The Senate just voted to cut federal funding for the news organization I worked at for 25 years. It only has itself to blame...
But it is also a victory for those of any political stripe who believe the government has no business funding the media...
instead of taking criticisms of its coverage to heart, NPR instead doubled down on agenda-driven journalism...