President Trump restarts effort to eliminate federal funding for leftist bastions PBS, NPR, NEA

This is much-needed, and yet another courageous initiative from President Trump. NPR, PBS, and the NEA: these are all propaganda arms for the far-left. They don’t deserve a penny of taxpayer money. Why should American citizens have to pay for globalist, anti-American, socialist propaganda? These cuts are urgently needed. Imagine how loud the outcry would be if there were a federally-funded organization that was pro-Trump. Well, it’s no different in this case. Taxpayers should not be forced to fund organs of the Democrat Party. Yet no doubt Congressional Republicans will fight this.

“Donald Trump Reups Effort to Eliminate PBS, NPR Federal Funding,” by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, March 18, 2019:

President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2020 aims to cut all funding for PBS and NPR, along with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

The president’s request, unveiled in its entirety on Monday, calls on Congress to kill $435 million in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $126 million from the NEA. The budget, which will spend $4.7 trillion on mandatory and discretionary programs, would leave just enough money to wind down operations of the CPB and NEA.

“[P]rivate fundraising has proven durable, negating the need for continued Federal subsidies,” the budget reads. “Services such as PBS and NPR, which receive funding from CPB, could make up the shortfall by increasing revenues from corporate sponsors, foundations, and members. In addition, alternatives to PBS and NPR programming have grown substantially since CPB was first established in 1967, greatly reducing the need for publicly funded programming options.”

In a statement, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger criticized the proposal to slash funding, noting Americans have named PBS among the most publically trusted “known institutions” for the past 16 years….

Despite public broadcast’s apparent bias against conservatives, a Republican-controlled Congress has funded CPB in 2017 and 2018.