Congress have threatened to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) due to their wasteful spending of public money.
Representative Doug Lamborn has introduced two bills that will permanently eliminate federal tax dollars from the two organizations.
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“American taxpayers do not want their hard-earned dollars funding superfluous government programs just because that is the way things have always been done,” Lamborn wrote on his congressional webpage.
The Coloradan introduced the bills to “permanently defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. CPB received $445 million during Fiscal Year 2016, and this money could be put to better use rebuilding our military and enhancing our national security.”
Lamborn insisted that with a $20 trillion national debt, cuts must be made; since these broadcasting services have been able to pick up funding from private sources in the past, cutting the tax dollars flowing into their coffers now is a good start at reducing government spending.
Rep. Lamborn, though, took pains to say that this proposal isn’t about the content aired by either of these broadcasting services.
“This is not about content, as CBP certainly airs some quality programs,” he wrote, “the point is that it is perfectly capable of standing on its own two feet and not on the financial shoulders of the American taxpayers. ”
Lamborn noted that the savings to the taxpayer could reach upwards to $500 million annually.
NPR features a webpage that breaks down its expenditures, but a recent assessment found that NPR receives about about 40 percent of its $166 million budget from the federal government, or about $66 million from taxpayers annually.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Wonderful! NPR was a great idea, but it’s totally corrupt Zionist/CIA disinfo.
Trump said he would drain the swamp.
OMG!!!
He’ll have to remove the drain plug first. I’m waiting, not patiently.
Mollie Norris, are you the real Molly Norris?
Has reality hit you in the face. Or are you aware of the difference? Google it!
Wrong.
they are fascist leftist indoctrination propaganda outlets.
I don’t believe there’s a distinction; I think both of our adjectives are correct. Zionists provided 95% of Hitler’s funding. When Germany (not the National Socialist Democratic Party) surrendered, Nazis were both imported to the US and used outside of the US as CIA employees to provide USSR and other communist intel; the Gehlen Organization, GO, for example, and Operation Bloodstone. Funding for Nazi Paperclip scientists was largely from the Zionist Annenberg Foundation. Truman and Joe McCarthy both used SS war criminals for intel. The link that I haven’t mentioned is left-Zionist, because I believe it’s acknowledged.
Another right-wing attempt to control the media. The outrage should’ve occurred the day Fox News got into existence. Rush Limbaugh should’ve been fired for being on too many drugs. The hypocritical right
It’s not control. It’s waste of tax money to promote a totally leftist progressive agenda that is detrimental to everything and everyone.
The “right-wing” does not want to control the media. They do not want tax money used for propaganda purposes.
NPR is an unbalanced left leaning organization spewing propaganda.
Help balance the US budget. Stop giving my tax dollars to a bunch of leftist crybabies.
Long overdue. These smug little holdovers from the 60’s need to be gone. Living in a dream world where it’s all kumbaya unless of course you’re a conservative, then you’re just evil.
NPR = National Propaganda Radio
Hey, I thought of that first!
Let’s be honest here. NPR is entirely a Marxist anti-American broadcaster. It’s a free country, so let them be so. But all public money should be yanked AND their name, National Public Radio should be revoked as its under trademark ownership of the US Gov. Let them continue on their own under some other name, or names. But it should be broken up. Let George Soros fund it. The Left has very deep pockets for things like Planned Parenthood.
every government agency has become the enemy of the people of the USA