Republican Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana is pushing a measure that would ban federal funds from flowing to NPR.
“After the date of enactment of this act, no Federal funds may be utilized or used in support of National Public Radio, directly or indirectly.” This includes by paying membership fees or purchasing programming to such organizations. using federal funds received by the public broadcaster.” suggestion, it says, is called the “Defund NPR Act.” The same goes for NPR’s “successor organization.”
Katherine Maher recently included the pronoun “she” in her X profile. became President and CEO of NPR.
“NPR’s new CEO is a radical left-wing activist who doesn’t believe in free speech or objective journalism. Hoosiers should not pay her,” Banks reportedly said. press release. “Katherine Maher is not qualified to teach an introductory journalism class, much less to responsibly spend millions of American tax dollars. NPR, under former CEO John Lansing, It was a stupid trash can, but it’s about to get even crazier. Now is the time.” To fix this national embarrassment, Congress should stop spending other people’s hard-earned money on low-grade propaganda. It should stop. ”
Maher’s archive of tweets includes comments, including one from October 2016. post It read: “I hope Hillary doesn’t use the words ‘boys and girls.’ That would erase the language of non-binary people.”
“I’m a huge public transportation geek. I hate private cars in the city. I love bicycles. And yes, I love buses. Transportation justice,” she said. I have written In 2020, she continued, “and love for the climate,” “in a little rolling lump of metal.”
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