Saturday, June 14, 2025

House votes to claw back $9.4bn in spending including from NPR and PBS | US politics | The Guardian

The package targets foreign aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides money for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, as well as thousands of public radio and television stations around the country. The vote was 214-212. 

Republicans are characterizing the spending as wasteful and unnecessary, but Democrats say the rescissions are hurting the United States' standing in the world and will lead to needless deaths. 

"Cruelty is the point," the Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, said of the proposed spending cuts...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/npr-pbs-funds-house-republicans


 



 

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