By ALEX HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 12:09 EDT, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 12:37 EDT, 27 March 2025 Republicans are introducing a bill to pull all government funding from NPR and PBS. The move, first reported by Fox News, comes a day after the stations’ CEOs appeared on Capitol Hill to combat claims both organizations
EXCLUSIVE: After a hard-hitting hearing by the House DOGE Subcommittee, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, is introducing a bill Thursday to pull all government funding from “chronically biased” outlets NPR and PBS, which he says have been “pushing Democrat talking points under the fake banner of ‘public media.’” Jackson’s bill – titled the “No Partisan Radio
Calls to eliminate government funding for NPR and PBS may have reached a peak, but the two networks have been living under that threat for decades. Congressional Republicans have periodically attempted to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the government-backed organization that administers hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding directed to public broadcasters
At the start of Wednesday’s congressional hearing on the funding of public media, a large photo of drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess appearing on a PBS kids show was displayed behind committee chair Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) That image set the tone for the hearing in Washington in which Greene and other Republican
Congressional Republicans laced into PBS and NPR on Wednesday, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery hearing that represented the latest salvo against the American press by close allies of the Trump administration. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who organized the hearing — which she called “Anti-American
In her opening remarks at Wednesday’s hearing on public media, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused PBS of using “taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical left positions like featuring a drag queen on the show.” The Republican from Georgia pointed at a photo of Lil Miss Hot Mess, a drag queen, calling her
One is a veteran TV executive. The other emerged from the world of digital media. Both are now chief executives of major public media organizations appearing before Congress on Wednesday, where they will face tough questioning from lawmakers. Here’s a look at their backgrounds. Katherine Maher C.E.O., NPR Ms. Maher, 41, has spent much of
One is a veteran TV executive. The other emerged from the world of digital media. Both are now chief executives of major public media organizations appearing before Congress on Wednesday, where they will face tough questioning from lawmakers. Here’s a look at their backgrounds. Katherine Maher C.E.O., NPR Ms. Maher, 41, has spent much of
Katherine Maher of NPR, at left, and Paula Kerger of PBS are scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the federal funding their organizations receive. StephenVoss/NPR and Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption StephenVoss/NPR and Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images A U.S. House subcommittee has called the chief executives of the nation’s two largest
PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses — the leaders of the two public media networks — as if they were combatants in a prizefight. They’re all getting ready for a hearing on Wednesday — ominously titled “Anti-American Airwaves” —