'Long overdue': Senate Republicans ram through Trump's clawback package with cuts to foreign aid, NPR

Fox News ^ | 7/17/25 | Alex Miller

[Libloather]

It's a start.

[Sacajaweau]

DOGE scrutiny will continue...and we’ll find more waste as we go along. Looking forward to the next rescission package.

[Sacajaweau]

Don’t worry...NPR and PBS is alive and well...and will continue to be funded “privately”. The big boys will just have to revise their “control” list.

[Adder]

Well, YAY!
A symbolic start!

Now, do it again!

[Apparatchik]

I don’t care who funds them, so long as it is domestic donors and my tax dollars stop going to leftist propaganda.

Crank up those pledge drives! Break out the tote bags! Fire up that virtue-signaling! Tell the folks how Big Bird will end dealing crack on Sesame Street with their contributions.

[Apparatchik]

*without* of course

[Republican Wildcat]

As you likely know, Sesame Street is not produced by PBS - but news reports claim that they are...and they are a multi-billion dollar enterprise...hardly dependent on public funding. And PBS has not had first run of that show for quite a number of years now. Yet, it continues to be falsely reported this way.

One such example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEZBgOOb4A

And the people in the comments section just lap it up like it is true.

[NFHale]

Good news… now when do we Citizens get to “claw back” some of that stolen tax money that was overpaid????

12 years of the Obunghole regime - 2008 to 2016, then again 2020 to 2024 - they stole a lot of money from us to fund their little attempted commie revolution.

[Omnivore-Dan]

National Propaganda Radio has been a tool for the dems for far too long. It always pisses me off knowing my tax dollars help to keep it running.

[PubliusMM]

it’s a drop in the bucket, but it’s a start.
Now let’s see more...much more.

[Dacula]

We should be passing rescissions bills every week. Claw back the government one bite at a time.

[djpg]

I wonder what judge the liberals will find to claim that finding NPR and PBS is constitutionally mandatory,

[Sacajaweau]

Why the "ram" word....as if it was a bad thing...

PBS and NPR won't skip a beat.

[Recompennation]

A lack of sunshine or not being shook enough?
What is wrong with these two, kowski and collins need to go. Mitch is self terminating and still kicks and plays us like we are stupid.

[metmom]

Fox makes it sound like that’s a bad thing.

[SMARTY]

I had a friend who got a job at the local PBS station. He had worked at many commercial TV stations all over the country and he said that PBS always had THE most up-to-date equipment and were totally in the black...ALL the time!

Their ‘begging for dollars’ shtick is a scam!

[quilterdebbie]

Good news. Every little bit helps.

[digger48]

Sis started her graphics career working for Henson Productions. Getting paid through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was a pain in the butt.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s time for the damn politicians to hang up their throw money at the freeloaders’ programs. American taxpayers are tired of it. It’s time for American “leaders” to do what they did to NATO. Make all the other countries start picking up the tab. America has done it long enough and has wasted a lot of taxpayer money on the freeloaders of the world. STOP FEEDING THE DAMN BEARS! They’ll never learn how to provide for themselves.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Unlike the previous procedural votes, Vice President JD Vance was not needed to break a tie. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted against the preceding procedural votes to advance the package on Tuesday night, but ultimately backed the bill.”

Now, go take a nap, Mitch.