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Trump White House to Ask Congress to Defund NPR, PBS, And USAID — Claw Back $9 Billion in Funds
Defenders of both USAID and Voice of America have decried killing key levers of global soft power that enhance U.S. national ...
White House rescissions package cuts $1.1 billion from PBS, $8.3 billion from USAID
President Donald Trump will send legislation to Congress asking for nearly $10 billion in spending cuts, the White House has ...
White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID
The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved ...
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Who Are Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger, the C.E.O.s of PBS and NPR?
Ms. Maher, 41, has spent much of her career leading ... Paula Kerger, 67, is the longest-serving chief executive in PBS’s history. She joined the network in 2006 from Thirteen, a PBS member ...
In Light of Congressional Testimony, Congress Should Defund NPR and PBS
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Krueger testified in front of Congress about allegedly biased journalism in each of ...
In Light of Testimony, We Should End Funding for NPR and PBS
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Krueger testified in front of Congress about allegedly biased journalism in each of ...
EXCLUSIVE: GOP moves to defund ‘chronically biased’ NPR, PBS after disastrous hearing
After a hearing by the DOGE Subcommittee, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, is introducing a bill to pull government funding from ...
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4 takeaways from PBS and NPR's testimony on Capitol Hill
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and her counterpart at PBS, Paula Kerger, appeared Wednesday before a House subcommittee on government efficiency, where they defended public broadcasting against accusations ...
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Republicans grill NPR and PBS executives about ‘biased’ coverage in DOGE subcommittee hearing
The hearing, called “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” featured testimony from NPR chief executive Katherine Maher and PBS chief executive Paula Kerger.
Save NPR and PBS — but without the government money
The best strategy for public broadcasting would be to take their own decisive steps to ditch federal funding and move on.
Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks NPR and PBS as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the ...
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NPR, PBS honchos face tense grilling by GOP lawmakers over biased coverage, taxpayer funding
The heads of NPR and PBS sat for a high-intensity grilling on Capitol Hill Wednesday as they tried to defend their taxpayer-funded liberal news outlets from the wrath of Republicans. NPR CEO ...