That is true, and a good thing.
It is also possible that NPR may be removed from future CR's and have no previously built in funding, and would have to continue on sponsorships and gifts.
In Obamacare the original bill carried large funding appropriations, likely put in in anticipation of public resistance and the election of a majority of Republicans. These appropriations may have been placed improperly but it is impossible to prove as none of the bills were read or recorded before the votes so the orign of the funding (must be House) can not be proved.
A normal Republican House budget bill now, without appropriations for Obamacare, will not pull the funding and spending authorizations in the original bill, they can still spend till that more than a trillion dollars is gone enforcing Obamacare. That is the problem, and the Rat trick I need to illustrate.
NPR may be off the public dole, but you always have to watch for the built in Rat trick and destroy it.
.......what infuriates me is that Boehner has ALL the leverage and, so far, the man simply won’t use it and his resistance to using it, so far, can only be explained in terms of “well, ole John’s a collegial type guy and simply won’t rock the boat too much”!
I say “damn”! ..........to that! Tell the rats that NO MORE raising the debt ceiling period, EVER!
From now on boys it’s gonna be “we spend what we got and all there is to talk about to “this here” house of representatives anymore is “WHO IS GOING TO GET SOME OF THIS $2.1 trillion in bucks we DO HAVE!!!” Don’t even call me about raising the debt ceiling, the phone is off the hook, you can catch me on the 18th green!
I fear that “outside forces” only will ever cause that day to happen! For example, Japan won’t loan to us, China won’t loan to us and everybody else cuts us off! It truly is going to take something like that to FORCE this dysfunctional government we have to act! On their own, they cannot do it!!!