July 16, 2025
End of the taxpayer gravy train for far-left NPR?
By Monica Showalter
Is the gravy train over for far-left, highly partisan National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Corporation?
Let's just say the light at the end of the tunnel is rapidly getting bigger.
According to the New York Times:
The Senate on Tuesday voted to take up legislation to claw back $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting, signaling that the Republican-led Congress is poised to acquiesce to President Trump in a simmering battle with the White House over spending powers.
The 51-to-50 vote came after Republican leaders agreed to a handful of concessions to win the votes of holdouts who were uneasy with the proposed rescissions. ...
Even then, some Republican senators refused to support a move that they said would relinquish their constitutional power over federal spending, forcing their leaders to summon Vice President JD Vance to the Capitol to break a tie and ram the legislation through a pair of procedural votes.Most of the clawed back cash -- about $8 billion, was various wasteful kinds of foreign aid, of which only about 12% ever makes it to its intended mendicant recipients. The rest goes to bureaucrats -- and NGOs, whose leaders enjoy six-figure salaries.
The rest, according to the Times, about $1.1 billion, is federal gravy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the parent company for NPR and PBS.
For them, the cash cow is over. And leftists are screaming bloody murder about it, despite past claims from the group that it barely relied on federal funding -- just 1% -- as its stations financed themselves by relying on "viewers just like yourself."
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/end_of_the_taxpayer_gravy_train_for_far_left_npr.html
