Posted on 06/10/2025 10:52:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
But the lawmaker didn’t say whether he would vote against the rescissions package.
A top House Republican appropriator opposes the Trump administration’s plans to claw back funding for public media — a potential problem for GOP leaders who need near-unity within their party to pass the White House’s request that Congress revoke billions of dollars it has already approved.
Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada, who leads the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security, on Monday joined with Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) to urge the administration to reconsider its proposal to cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR.
It’s a portion of the larger recissions package the administration sent to Capitol Hill last week to cut $9.4 billion previously greenlit by Congress, mainly for foreign aid.
“Public media has demonstrated a willingness to listen to the American public and adapt,” said the two lawmakers, who are co-chairs of the Bipartisan Public Broadcasting Caucus, in a statement. “While we reaffirm that public media must be objective and legitimate concerns about content should be addressed, funding decisions should be objective as well.”
Amodei and Goldman also noted that public media supports local jobs and the spread of information to rural constituents, and that cutting its funding does not significantly save money.
“Public broadcasting represents less than 0.01% of the federal budget, yet its impact reaches every congressional district,” lawmakers said. “Cutting this funding will not meaningfully reduce the deficit, but it will dismantle a trusted source of information for millions of Americans.”
President Donald Trump and many of his Republican allies have said NPR and PBS air programming biased against conservatives and shouldn’t receive government support. But Amodei joins a growing number of GOP lawmakers who want to tread carefully. Other Republicans are expressing concerns about cuts to global AIDS prevention efforts, too.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise last Friday introduced the rescissions package as a formal piece of legislation, with a floor vote expected later this week. It is unclear whether Amodei would vote against the package on the floor as it is, but leaders can only afford to lose three Republican votes and still pass the measure.
“We don’t share how he is planning to vote before a vote but he is looking at all of the information,” said Carrie Kwarcinski, a spokesperson for Amodei, in a statement.
Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada needs to go. We do not need RINOs in Congress.
The usual caveat of follow the money should come in here but journalists are a tight knit cabal.
They don’t have to ‘Follow the Money’.....It comes to them.................
I’d say that de-funding NPR/PBS along with Planned Parenthood top the list of “rescissions” your average conservative would want to see. Add to that the federal Department of Education. There are lots of things that needs to be cut but these are the most visible and perpetually annoying wastes of taxpayer money that need to go. If they can’t do this they aren’t going to do anything.
every congressman needs to ask themselves this one simple question each and every time they want to spend money on some crap.
Is funding this worth Americans losing social security over?
Because that is exactly what is going to happen if we don’t stop spending.
Any Republican who opposes cutting this funding... is not a Republican.
Mockingbird needs Mockingcash.
This statement is not even remotely true.
This reminds me about the whole “Obamacare” debacle. A whole wave of Repubs campaigned promising to get rid of it. Upon winning both the House and the Senate, they continued to fund it. Trump ended the mandate and fines by executive order but the GOP itself did nothing to help.
Heads up.
Bloomberg reports Bissent leads the list to replace Powell at the Fed.
We can start the countdown to the next round of QE.
If they could just cut government funding for their “News and political opinion shows” that would be a good start.
It makes me sick that we have such statist, big govt loving democrat assistants like this in the GOP.
PRIMARY THESE LOSER RINOS!
Outrageous. We are letting tax money go to Marxist, anti-Trump hateful propagandists to undermine America.
That should have been stopped long ago.
Origin of public broadcasting TV and radio was the Judge Smails type conservative country club millionaires owned all the major groups of stations and there was no way for the minor small station voices to be heard for dissent.
Now, every university has a NPR radio station and so does every city and most towns, meaning across a radio dial there might be 8 or 10 NPR outlets in one small area of a state.
And the TV of PBS is always on, with examples of Detroit, Toledo and Lansing on one Xfinity in Michigan——three with the same point of view all day.
Hey, 95% of the people want that money cut off to those places. You’re backing the wrong thing.
He’s a freakin demorat.
The Senior House Republican is, as many are, a RINO.
FUGEDDABOUDDITTT.
How about supporting the American people on this you idiots, and not yourselves.
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