JUST IN: Senate Launches Effort To Defund The Liberal Media
Published 16 hours ago
on March 3, 2025
By Chris Powell
Republican lawmakers are ramping up efforts to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, with Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) leading the charge. His proposed “No Propaganda Act” aims to prohibit taxpayer dollars from subsidizing what he calls “left-of-center opinion journalism.”
Kennedy took to the Senate floor, making the case that NPR and PBS are entitled to publish editorial content but should not be funded by taxpayers.
“We’re spending half a billion dollars a year—14 and a half billion dollars over time—to give to people at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR, and PBS to participate in opinion journalism, which they’re entitled to do, but they can’t do it on the taxpayer dime. They’re doing it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn’t be able to,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy pointed to NPR’s $201 million headquarters near the Capitol, questioning why public money is being used to finance what he calls a declining media institution.
“The folks at PBS and NPR are doing pretty well for themselves. NPR just bought a $201 million office space just up the road from the Capitol. $200 million. It came from American taxpayers so they could publish this stuff,” he said.
“They can go exist on their own if they want to—funded. We’re running $36 trillion in debt. This is disgraceful in 2025. It’s disgraceful whether it is left-of-center opinion journalism or right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful for the American people to have to fund this rot. It doesn’t have a right to exist, and they don’t have a right to taxpayer money,” Kennedy finished.
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