BREAKING : President Trump Seeks to CUT FUNDING to Liberal Radio Station NPR
NPR is the very liberal-leaning radio station that, like Sesame Street, is partially funded by the government.
Rumor has it that President Trump plans on defunding NPR when his new budget is released.
Currently, NPR receives funding via the “Corporation for Public Broadcasting” or CPB, which is allocated $445 million annually to dole out to assorted media channels.
Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an idea floated by the Trump administration, would likely take two years to go into effect.
The funding for CPB, which receives roughly $450 million a year for public television and public radio, is allotted two years in advance. Any appropriations bill that did not include new funding for the CPB would mean that it would not be defunded until fiscal year 2019.
President Donald Trump is expected to release his budget blueprint on Monday. Transition officials have signaled that the president plans dramatic cuts, including privatizing the CPB and eliminating both the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.
The move would cut funding to National Public Radio, widely considered liberal-leaning, which recently failed to disclose during an interview with Trump-bashing former CIA analyst Ned Price that he was a Hillary Clinton donor.
NPR claims federal funding is “essential,” even though it also acknowledges that on average “less than 1 percent” of its annual operating budget comes from grants from the CPB.
Exact funding that NPR receives from the taxpayer is unclear. The CPB allots $99.1 million of its $445 million budget to public radio in the form of grants. Roughly $69 million are “unrestricted” grants for producing local content and covering station costs, and $22.8 million are “restricted,” which are used to acquire and produce programming that is distributed nationally.
NPR said it received $1.272 million in CPB competitive grants in fiscal year 2015 and $65,000 from federal agencies. The nonprofit listed total assets of $344.2 million.
The CPB, however, lists $1.6 million in station grants to NPR for 2015. NPR also operates the Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS), an interconnected system of over 1,500 local stations.
In 2014, the CPB issued 410 grants to 1,119 public radio stations. Grants included partnering a local radio station with the Environmental Protection Agency and church youth groups for an anti-littering campaign, and a “transgender awareness” program in Delaware.
In addition, since 2012 NPR has received $891,504 in grants and contracts from various federal agencies.
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Awesome!
I live in the hinterlands of MT and can only receive NPR clearly but they are so liberal and leftist I can’t stand listening more than five minutes to their blather. They should pay us to listen! Defund them permanently as soon as possible…. please!
the notion of tax payer funded public radio is absurd. It should never have started. It should be terminated ASAP.
GOOD! Let them make their money without ripping off American tax payers.
They are oblivious to real life and so arrogant, you simply cannot watch them
CPB is one of the most lucrative franchises in the business. Can we say: “Sesame Street”, et. al.
The millions they have made on over-priced program trinkets, with their corporate “associations”, their foundation “sponsorships”, supposed “non-advertising” policies. This has been a scandal for many years ! I say awesome for Trump – someone finally doing something about this fraud! not to mention it has been a blast horn for Left Wing propaganda for decades – let them finance their own drivel ! Tax payers want none of this. Shut down this hideous scam !
It’s not 1956 anymore. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever this company should get a single dime from the government. They are the definition of redundant.
even if this stuff wasnt liberal it doesnt need to be paid for by the taxpayers.
Make my day. It can’t come soon enough. It is polluting and indoctrinating young minds. Why are we using taxpayer dollars to fund a radio program?? This is perplexing.
In 2003, Joan Kroc, wife of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, left $200 million to the NPR Endowment Fund because she “believed in the power of public radio to serve American communities”. Progressives/liberals come at all income levels. NPR was well taken care of for many years. They do not need more federal monies.
Once the tax payer funding is gone they will go bankrupt, no one wants to listen to their garbage anyway.