Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is aiming for NPR and PBS to help taxpayers save their hard-earned money.
Monday, he announcement Laws that cut federal funds to outlets in the form of “no propaganda law”; Washington Examiner It has been reported.
Kennedy's speech on the Senate floor I said:
We spend $5 billion a year and $1.4 billion over time, providing corporate people for public broadcasting, NPR and NPS [sic] To participate in opinion journalism, they have the right to do it, but they cannot do it on the taxpayer dime. They do it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn't be able to do it.
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And what do you know? Despite all this money that American taxpayers are giving these left-center entities, their audience has diminished. Because people don't need them anymore.
They can exist themselves if they want, but I would like to refund them. We operate $36 trillion in debt. This is the dishonor of 2025. Whether it's central opinion journalism or central opinion journalism, it's dishonorable. It is dishonorable that Americans must fund this corruption.
“NPR just bought $200 million office space down the road from the Capitol,” Kennedy said. He noted that the host earns more than $500,000 a year, while its top diversity officer earns more than $300,000 a year.
Social media users responded immediately to Kennedy's announcement. write“Good for you. That's our money they give to leftist organizations. I stopped looking at PBS many years ago.”
“If they accidentally break or can't make a profit on their own, I'll remove them. Obviously, the American people don't want them,” another user I commented.
In January, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Kerr ordered concerns that NPR and PBS investigations could “violate federal law by airing commercials,” according to Breitbart News.
The outlet recently reported that “Congressional Republicans and the Government's Department of Efficiency (DOGE) are targeting taxpayer-funded NPR in efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse.”
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