White House readies plan for Congress to ax ‘all’ public broadcasting funds, codify DOGE aid cuts

NY Post ^ | April 14, 2025

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I hope this finally happens but its like Charlie Brown and the football. Newt Gingrich was going to axe all funding for public broadcasting 30 years ago and it never happened. The Tea Party Congress was going to do it and it never happened. We’ll see if there are enough GOP sympathizers in the Senate (probably) who love listening to NPR on the way in in the morning to cut funding.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

As Michael Brown''s stepfather sagely proclaimed:

Burn this bitch down!

[Texas Eagle]

Just for fun, President Trump should propose fully funding NPR and CPB in exchange for sending taxpayers royalties for merchandise sold by Sesame Street and whatever other form of revenue is generated by those organizations. 😉

Oh, yeah. And a free MAGA tote bag. 😜 🏆

[hardspunned]

“rescissions”!! Now we’re talking.

[Frank Drebin]

Frankly that royalties check should happen for all years this, and other, publicly funded “non-profits” have been milking the taxpayer. Every single cent they’ve made should be reimbursed to the American taxpayer.

[Flaming Conservative]

I don’t doubt he can get the House to pass it, but if it requires 60 Senate votes, it will take a genuine miracle. I believe in miracles.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I used to be a fan of the Voice of America but understand it’s now the voice of woke. Too bad. NPR and PBS may have had a place when there were only the big 3, but I hope Trump succeeds in gutting their government funding.

[Fury]

don’t doubt he can get the House to pass it, but if it requires 60 Senate votes, it will take a genuine miracle. I believe in miracles.

Tend to agree - the CPB cuts will not make it, but others may.

[kiryandil]

I don’t doubt he can get the House to pass it, but if it requires 60 Senate votes, it will take a genuine miracle. I believe in miracles.

Hence the need for the stolen Senate seats in 2024...

[Texas Eagle]

Oh, yeah! Make it retroactive!

Trump needs to create a Dept. Of Great Ideas. Call it DOGI. 😃

[Revel]

My guess is that the republicans don’t have the back bone to pass this and send it to Trump.

[No name given]

Good idea.

[Tell It Right]

In all seriousness, if all of public broadcasting went away, who would actually know? Do kids still watch Sesame Street? How many people watch or listen to NPR?

Sure the media will howl. But would anyone's real life be changed?

[vikingd00d]

>>I don’t doubt he can get the House to pass it, but if it requires 60 Senate votes, it will take a genuine miracle. I believe in miracles.

They could use the reconciliation process, it would only require 51 votes in the senate.

[Flaming Conservative]

I don’t understand how that works.

[HamiltonJay]

I don’t know if I agree with ALL...

I think some very rural areas where it is funding public radio and weather reports and other things probably are worth while..

But yes, funding Frontline to put out left wing propaganda pieces passed off as news and journalism should not be getting funded with tax money.

[SaveFerris]

(White House readies plan for Congress to ax ‘all’ public broadcasting funds, codify DOGE aid cuts)

EXCELLENT!!

[HamiltonJay]

Most urban folks wouldn’t knwo other than NPR would be begging for money more than they already do....

However, I do think some very rural areas would see impact, weather reports, etc... there are definitely things that public broadcasting does that is useful especially for underserved rural areas...

However, most urban markets, yes, I don’t understand how Frontline gets public money to basically pass off left wing propaganda as investigative jouranlism most of the time.

[katana]

With online streaming the type of entertainment and documentaries that PBS used to specialize in are available at no tax payer expense. And as far as the Leftist tripe it and NPR spew, F ‘em.